by Lydia Leong | August 15, 2011 | 7 Comments
I wrote, the other day, about Citrix buying Cloud.com, and I realized I forgot to make an important point about OpenStack versus the various commercial vendors vying for the cloud-building market; it’s worthy of a post on its own. OpenStack is designed by the community, which is to say that it’s largely designed by committee, [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Citrix, Cloud, open source, OpenStack
by Lydia Leong | August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
(This is part of a series of “catch-up” posts of announcements that I’ve wanted to comment on but didn’t previously find time to blog about.) Recently, Citrix acquired Cloud.com. The purchase price was reported to be in the $200m+ vicinity — around 100x revenues. (Even in this current run of outsized valuations, that’s a rather [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Citrix, Cloud, RAX, software, VMware
