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Comment by monstrado | Hacker News Reader

Hi, first off...the Nebula One looks great, really hope to try it out someday at work.

Regarding the underlying framework, I'm not very familiar with OpenStack (we use CloudStack right now), but is this a proprietary fork of OpenStack or are you guys moving the project forward upstream?

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Hi, I'm a nebula employee and I have been a key contributor to OpenStack since its founding. We have not forked OpenStack and we are committed to making the upstream project a success. We have some proprietary pieces around the control plane, storage and UX, but we will continue to participate heavily in upstream development and plan on integrating more OpenStack pieces as they stabilize.

Hi Vish! When you say "proprietary pieces around the control plane", does that mean inside or outside of nova?

Outside of nova.

Congrats guys! Keep up the good nebula work :-)

We're pushing a _ton_ upstream and we don't have any proprietary forks.

A cliudstack vs openstack article that happened to be open in the next tab in my browser: http://cloud.mammatustech.com/our-company/news-feed/cloudsta...

Cloudstack as it stands currently is a bit scary to me. They moved from being fully supported by Citrix to an Apache project which may or may not be fully supported by Citrix? Given that there are few contributors to the project, unlike with OpenStack, losing Citrix support I would see as essentially the project dying.

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