[OpenStack Foundation] Updating the OpenStack Mission Statement

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 23:46:25 UTC 2016


> *From:*Boris Renski [mailto:brenski at mirantis.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:05 PM
> *To:* AlanClark
> *Cc:* <foundation at lists.openstack.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Updating the OpenStack Mission
> Statement
>
> Does anybody share a concern that the current mission statement is a bit
> too generic and broad?
>
> Once this mission statement is published, I can see headlines "OpenStack
> will fail because it aims to be all things to all people. Updated
> mission statement confirms it's inevitable doom."

Heh, this already has happened, without any change in mission statement!

http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/2016/02/08/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-will-openstack-become-niche/

For those of us who, years ago, warned about the dangers of "enterprise" 
workloads -- i.e. pets -- not being a good fit for OpenStack, and how 
the future was cattle workloads and cloud-native apps, this article 
kinda hit a nerve.

But then again, I keep hearing that these enterprises are paying all the 
salaries... so... who knows?

-jay



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