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HP has put its stamp on the world of OpenStack clouds, with its Helion OpenStack community edition code general availability, as of today. Helion OpenStack starts with a community edition available now, which the company says is suitable for proof-of-concept and pilot deployments, based on the Icehouse release. The company's …

  1. batfastad

    Proprietary

    I've seen this film before and it's rubbish. Take an open source project, wrap it in proprietary gubbins, sell it to clueless C*Os, then it falls behind the upstream project after 6 months, vendor updates dry up as the departments get "re-focused", then in 18 months' time community support and documentation no longer applies to you and you can't upgrade to the upstream community project.

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