Re: [sop] -- Service Orchestration and Desciption for Cloud Services

Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> Sat, 18 February 2012 22:16 UTC

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> Let's not forget that providers need to differentiate their services
> from one another.

You are telling me that ? You - were it takes cisco on average 2 years 
to get any enhancement in then such enhancement is immediately available 
to all service providers as clearly you can not scale with per customer 
development branch. Amazing stuff !

> How will provider services be differentiated if
> everyone uses the same open-source software stack? Add proprietary
> extensions not published back to open-source?

If such open source license permits it (example apache) .. why not ?

Thx,
R.