OSCON 2010: Marten Mickos
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Eucalyptus builds an on‑premise IaaS platform licensed under GPL3 license and claims about 12,000 downloads per month. Originating from an NSF project at UC Santa Barbara, the stack targets private clouds while offering a community cloud free account and a paid enterprise edition for mission‑critical deployments. Presenter contrasts public SaaS/PaaS dominance with more open source activity in IaaS, cites a rough market estimate of ~2% current workloads on clouds potentially rising to ~20% in five years, and emphasizes scalability and enterprise support.
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