Intel Pulls Out of OpenStack Effort It Founded with Rackspace
OpenStack really has a bunch of problems.<p>The big one is that OpenStack is about building and operating your own Rackspace; this is not something IT organizations can even hire for let alone carry off. The idea that they could&#x2F;would&#x2F;should was purely aspirational.<p>The others are that it&#x27;s basically a mess - no two OS deployments will look the same - and that it has neither an operational advantage nor too much of a pricing advantage (50% for RHAT) over VMware - which is better integrated and much, much better from a admin experience and debuggability standpoint.<p>I looked hard at leveraging OpenStack for the service we were building but the underlying code was often cringetastic and somewhat naive. At some level if you run software as a service you can work around poor code quality - something friends from AWS have emphasized - but you can&#x27;t throw it over the wall and have other people without large engineering staffs there to help run it - which doesn&#x27;t work in the small. VMware is the opposite approach - the entire model and practices evolved out of arm&#x27;s reach software sales and support. So naturally it works better.