Open Stack

On 04/25/2013 11:36 AM, Ghe Rivero wrote:
> Hi,
> Another issue I see at medium/long term is the proliferation of
> drivers/plugins/whatever that every company is trying  to get merged
> into openstack in order to have it porduct supported (sell). All of them
> going to survive/be interested to continue its development? So far,
> openstack-network now has 9 "commercial" plugins. Lovely to see too much
> effort from companies but, at long term, we can have a bunch of old and
> nor supported code inside openstack.

I don't see this as a huge issue.  If code goes unmaintained, we need to
not be afraid of ripping it out.  It has been done before (see Hyper-V).
 It can always come back in if the vendor steps back up to work on it
(again, see Hyper-V).

-- 
Russell Bryant