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CloudFoundry.org launches - Fully Open Source PaaS (cloudfoundry.org)
5 points by sgrove on April 11, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



It looks like vmware is really starting to figure out 'the open source way'. There were a lot of problems at the beginning - disparity between cloudfoundry.com vs .org distributions, inability to pull community features, lack of .org documentation, no strong leadership, zendesk for support (no mailing list!) - but they've brought on some really good people (like Patrick Chanezon) who definitely seem to understand developer concerns.

Hopefully this new open workflow should make upping the code quality a much smoother process, as it's a medium-sized codebase that could use a bit of polish.

I'm actually surprised vmware was able to stick with CloudFoundry this long until they started to get it right - are there other examples of 'open source' (in quotes) project by huge companies that ended up finding their way?




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