Start the first mass deployment of Openstack (soft infrastructure services based on free)

Bah, not the first, but the first to be done in a couple of well-known companies (eBay, PayPal), and at the level of several tens of thousands of servers simultaneously.

We started ..
The enterprise-wide success of free software comes primarily from two sources:
- Be technically capable and viable as the soft option owner.- Be Free to use, having no license cost.
Spinning fine on TCOThe TCO (Total Cost of Ownership, TCO) includes several costs more than a license of the software (the administrators pagás will you install / manage the software for example), however given an infrastructure large enough, licenses the cost becomes much larger portion in the TCO than usual in smaller infrastructure.
In companies like PayPal and Ebay, with around 80,000 servers, the cost to pay for soft licenses will necessarily be quite high for the number of servers.
So when there is a - any - Free soft option, technically reliable, companies with large infrastructure - and a couple of important notions of finding a good balance vs. resource investment. yield savings in license purchase - to implement projects quickly start and stop paying licenses, when at that time there is - or would be - essential to.
The news below comments as PayPal and Ebay started a pilot project 10,000 migrating servers from VMware to OpenStack, with the possible idea - if all goes well - 80,000 migrating servers at some point and stop paying licenses for the use of soft virtualization.
As we walk with the TCO over hereIt is important to emphasize something, given the typical TCO, businesses / organizations seek to always have the least amount of IT specialist staff (which themselves on a common minimum, usually a team of 4 to 6 people), and VMware warrants that can manage a large virtual infrastructure - say, 10-50 physical nodes, with 20-100 virtual machines - with minimal staff and for staff fairly reasonable cost (since it is a market standard, many IT professionals have today certain management skills in VMware, and still hiring outside specialists also higher level entails stole. exceptionally high cost, as if it would be - probably - see complex software with few options of consulting).
So not many companies / organizations are even looking to replace their existing time solutions based on VMware (however expensive they are), including something similar can be said of other options already implemented (Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, etc..) .
And for organizations that are looking to leave sometime Vmware (so expensive it is just now), there are other commercial options extremely viable (and very sought after, in my opinion):
- From the technical (skills reused because the notions of configuration / management are similar to those found in Vmware), and- Since the economic (free hypervisors, or included with the operating system license, additional tools available and reasonably priced: centralized managers, some appliance such as antivirus software and virtualized networking, etc..) Highlighted in particular: Windows Server 2012 ( Hyper-V), RHEL and SLES (KVM and Xen), Citrix (Xen).
Close, not yet, but ...In other words, it is a very good sign starting Openstack massive deployments outside of existing, which was limited almost exclusively to cloud providers infrastructure (IASS): Rackspace, HP, etc.. But there is still some time to see OpenStack competing head to head the typical market - in Argentina, for example - with other offers infrastructure virtualization software, such as today when considering a server OS and compared RHEL, SLES, Windows Server, etc..
Sure, the pioneers who have enough on their computers IT skillset to anticipate, will have the potential for much faster approach to implement virtual infrastructure based on free software, with the many benefits that stole. have: not having to budget tens of thousands of U $ S of cost re-licensing in five-year cycles, and that budget to spend on other needs of IT and / or business / organization.