Just in time for VMworld, VMware(s vmw) is about to join the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold member, along with Intel(s intc) and NEC, according to a post on the OpenStack Foundation Wiki. The applications for membership are on the agenda of the August 28 OpenStack Foundation meeting.
A year ago, a VMware-OpenStack hookup would have been seen as unlikely.
This announcement makes me very hopeful. I'm hoping VMware takes this pretty seriously and implements hooks from their management suite which is the best in the industry into OpenStack. Gives shops that just want to be dumb about the lowest levels the clean interface associated with vSphere/vCloud management interface.
It also gives development teams that want to code to an Open API the needed platform. I can't say it will be a win/win but it's a bold move by VMware.
