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Foundations are growing in popularity as a way to manage collaboration and competition. They provide stability in the middle of wild markets like containers.

Loved the "role of the foundation" podcast from @christo4ferris & @CloudOfCaroline -> bit.ly/1QHL4Bb

There will be more of that talk at Interconnect on @duncanjw’s panel

it's still a mixed scorecard on foundations. Linux and Cloud Foundry have done well recently, but OpenStack and some others less so. All depends on how much vendors dictate the agenda vs. community-driven goals.

We’re definitely seeing interop and execution at the same time. Not just in Cloud Foundry, but in CNCF and OCI - look at Docker and CoreOS.

"Are we headed for Foundation Fatigue" is going to be a GREAT #ibminterconnect panel w/ @sramji @tcrawford @e_monty @duncanjw

inter-dependencies and conflicts between projects is a complex fabric - I really like when I see collaboration

@sramji which is a sign of a healthy ecosystem. it's great to see the breadth of contributions and still see the competition

With #blockchain foundation members also provide a venue for readiness... we all will make sure that an open ledger is ready for 100 years of transactions!

It’s funny, we use the word “ecosystem” which we borrow from biology and perhaps think it means “peaceful”. Ecosystems in nature are quite violent. @d_lindquist

at #ibminterconnect we are going to breakdown the new linux #blockchain project and demo blockchain on @IBMCloud

@sramji but they achieve equilibrium for extended periods

@sramji agreed. people sweep "coopetition" under the rug as if it's a peaceful co-existence. it adds a 50% tax to all partnerships and interactions.

@christo4ferris Yes… after the expansion and die-off phases!

@bgracely Linux Foundation dropping community representation seems a step backwards

Application development & deployment has been the biggest area for the last few years (Node.js, Cloud Foundry, Docker, etc).

harmonizing container technologies

what @dancberg said!

Now that elastic compute is getting solved, elasticity for networking and storage are bubbling up.

as technology takes a greater role in reshaping businesses, open plays a bigger role in giving more options for the "supply chain"

agree, the growth and innovation around application development and deployment technology has been incredible

Some of the best open technologies provide a "seat at the table" for companies to add value. Think NPM for Node, DockerHub for Docker, CloudFoundry Services and Runtimes... When open means extendable it often work best.

Blockchain is sort of “open-squared” - open source plus enabling open distributed transactions.

@bgracely excellent point! an important characteristic of successful open technologies is that there are multiple options available to end consumers/users

among the more significant priorities for open source is keeping a pulse adoption, and understanding critical issues like security

personally, I think the most important priorities are those that matter most to most

Vehicles are coming to the forefront - not just IoT, which is big for open technologies, but specifically cars and UAVs: https://www.automoti... and https://www.dronecod...

@christo4ferris security, availability, management to name a few

the most important thing those of us in open communities can do is understand our users needs

#ibmblockchain Blockchain and open source go hand in glove... Linux foundation is all over it... and we are all in. Sooo much innovation in cloud, mobile, analytics... Blockchain has arrived to bring new innovations that make transactions cool

@sramji When you say "elastic networking" what do you mean? Interfaces? Bandwidth?

@sramji Similarly, for "elastic storage," what do you have in mind? Isn't storage already elastic?

It’s the slow part of elastic computing right now. Setting up new network routes is more than an API call.

So SDN and NFV have parts to play in solving the network problem.

On the storage side - getting access to new storage beyond simple APIs - volumes and storage virtualization - still have quite a way to go. The two problems (storage and networking) are bound up in each other.

@sramji I understand what you're getting at for each of networking and storage, I think, but I'm not clear how their evolutions are linked, if that's what you're suggesting.

@sramji Yes, pretty clear that SDN and NFV in some form are important, but their maturity seems a long way off with continuing controller wars and no federation of controllers in sight

@rjhintz Exactly. There is a challenge there which makes fluidity and interoperability very hard. Those are required for elasticity.

@rjhintz I think about simple problems like getting a secure network route to a storage volume for a container running an application with audit or regulatory requirements. The network and the storage aspects are strongly linked.

It's all about application and content delivery. That's what your users see and experience. How it's deployed and where it's irrelevant to them. So the priority today is to make that delivery and deployment as streamlined as possible.

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