Tagline on ovirt.org does not communicate a clear and simple message

[Ayal Baron]

----- Original Message -----
> On 01/17/2012 05:15 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 01/17/2012 09:02 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
> >> On 01/13/2012 12:50 PM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
> >>> On 01/12/2012 05:43 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>>> Am 12.01.2012 um 23:32 schrieb Anthony
> >>>> Liguori<aliguori at us.ibm.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> On 01/12/2012 03:53 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:
> >>>>>>>> oVirt - the virtual datacenter management platform
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Provision, manage and monitor hypervisors and virtual
> >>>>>>>> machines
> >>>>>> Perhaps the tag line should be more KVM centric?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Provision, manage and monitor virtual machines in the KVM
> >>>>>> hypervisor.
> >>>> Provision, manage and monitor KVM? Whoever comes to oVirt will
> >>>> hopefully know which kvm we're talking about :)
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if we should spell it out also, if only to get better
> >>> keyword
> >>> mapping with google.
> >>>
> >>
> >> One additional though is that we primarily focus on KVM, however
> >> if some
> >> summits patches for linux container (as an example) support and
> >> they
> >> 'fit' in well, we would most likely take them.
> 
> I'm not in favor of non kvm activities too. At least for this year.

+1, we indeed need to focus on making it the best virtualization platform we can and that means focus on kvm.

> oVirt needs the focus. In theory it can do it all - kvm, xen,
> containers, cloud, etc. But in practice it would be the best for us
> to
> focus of being as good as we can in a more narrow, realistic field.
> The
> current field is enterprise virtualization using kvm. IMHO that's the
> right one and there is plenty of work to do around it. Spreading
> around
> will slow down the main effort (even if others do the work).
> 
> Potentially in a year time we may re-evaluate things.
> 
> >
> > Er, would we? That seems to go pretty much against what I
> > understood as
> > the purpose of oVirt.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori
> >
> >> Maybe virt in the
> >> tagline, and then KVM in the blurb text below on the main page?
> >>
> >> Carl.
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