Will wonders never cease!
VMware, which – Cloud Foundry aside – doesn’t exactly have open source in its DNA, has asked to join the OpenStack Foundation – the consortium that wants nothing more than to take over VMware’s market share. And it’s willing to pay for the privilege, throwing its cloak of enterprise respectability over open source cloud platform.
Well, what is it they say? Hold your friends close and your enemies closer.
Where better to watch what OpenStack is up to than from inside?
It’s also a chance for Red Hat, a Platinum member since April and now one of the biggest OpenStack contributors, to watch its arch-enemy at closer quarters.