Eucalyptus Systems, the open source cloud company, has been busy hardening the platform and is days away from delivering its third feature release in the last year.
CEO Marten Mikos says he’s “amazed at the engineering cadence. It’s better than at MySQL.”
He ought to know. He’s the guy who sold MySQL to Sun for a sweet billion dollars.
Out of an abundance of mock humility, he says, the widgetry has been dubbed Eucalyptus 3.2 although it’s not your everyday point release. It represents significant work with key customers that should put further distance between Eucalyptus and its main open source rival, OpenStack, which Marten says is way too big.