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Not like open-source won, more like proprietary eats itself.
I’m not sure yet where we'll end up, but the small cluster of 8 machines of ours will not run vSphere in 2025.
You know, I always used to think that e.g. Amazon talking about “customer obsession” was stupid. Of course a business is focused on its customers? That’s where the money comes from? Then I got to see the conversation about subscriptions at VMware. The storyline was always “wouldn’t it be great for us if we switched to subscriptions? Look how good all the math gets!” The customer barely appeared as a background charac…
This is described in the book as a fantastic achievement for Adobe but one that was quite difficult to get off the ground. On reflection I do not share that assessment and while it may have been personally successful for the CEO/author of the book, it was done entirely at the expense of the customer and their experience. I would in fact consider renting software that takes up storage on your own hardware to be anti-consumer.
My heart goes out to all of the institutions that are about to get hammered by this change, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't excited about a potential increase in investment in open source cloud virtualization infrastructure. Proxmox seems poised to benefit from this; is Openstack in a situation where it could be reasonably rolled out as a substitute for vSphere without requiring significant staff increases?
proxmox is presently not an alternative to the VMWare stack. Not even close. Converting from the VMWare stack⭢ proxmox would be a giant shitshow. I have been a paying user of WMware personally since the beginning and I have worked on their enterprise stack for several years. With the changes being made I cant see myself wanting to spend any personal money on it I and I would not recommend someone to start fresh with…
You know, I always used to think that e.g. Amazon talking about “customer obsession” was stupid. Of course a business is focused on its customers? That’s where the money comes from? Then I got to see the conversation about subscriptions at VMware. The storyline was always “wouldn’t it be great for us if we switched to subscriptions? Look how good all the math gets!” The customer barely appeared as a background charac…
The best story I heard on this was from Zappos and Tony Hsieh. Zappos was famously customer focused (which probably played a big roll in Amazon acquiring them). The story goes that after a night of drinking they had someone call Zappos to find pizza for them, and Zappos customers services helped them out (not knowing the CEO was there listening).
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Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great! Otherwise, prepare to invest in other ways. I'm not going to say VMware has a super intuitive system, but I've gotten surprisingly far at times without a lot of deep knowledge. Well, until the *nix-like kernel in the hypervisor misbehaves....
The setup is not too complicated with something like https://opendev.org/openstack/devstack
If you want a deployment choose something like openstack-ansible.
We're entering a post-growth economy in the near future, so the only way for companies to have reliable revenue streams is to create subscription services. Get ready because y'all are about to be rundled to death.