Winged Monkey

Chris Wright chrisw at redhat.com
Sat Oct 27 02:04:29 UTC 2012


* Greg Blomquist (gblomqui at redhat.com) wrote:
> > From: "Chris Wright" <chrisw at redhat.com>
> > So has any thought gone into comparing w/ Horizon, oVirt User Portal,
> > etc?
> 
> Yep!  We've definitely talked about this.

Cool.  I can't say I've done any exhaustive comparison, but it could
inform some basic usecases (snapshots or security groups as examples).

> I'll be honest, I haven't seen the oVirt User Portal, but I have seen
> the oVirt WebAdmin (which probably isn't good for any type of 
> comparison) and Horizon.
> 
> I think horizon has a relatively clean look to it, but, like Conductor
> there's not a lot of separation between admin functionality and end 
> user functionality.
> 
> Radez is working on Thermal (a UI for Heat, to mimic what CloudFormation
> provides in EC2), and that will help by providing the functionality of 
> spinning up "applications" or "stacks" from directly within Horizon.
> 
> But, it will still be part of the larger Horizon body of user experience.
> 
> To be honest, though.  This distinction is from the top of my head right
> now.  We'll have to keep these applications in mind as we strive to 
> better define our niche here.

Glad you've got it mentally bookmarked.

cheers,
-chris



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