From InfoWorld: Seven months after dismissing OpenDaylight, HP has raised its membership in the vendor-driven open source SDN consortium to its highest and most expensive tier.
HP is now a Platinum member of OpenDaylight, raising its status from a lower tier Silver member, which it has been since the consortium formed a little over a year ago. HP has upped its investment and participation in OpenDaylight because open source software-defined networking is "completely consistent" with what HP has been doing in terms of openness, interoperability and standards, says Sarwar Raza, director of cloud networking and SDN, HP Networking.
"OpenDaylight is at a stage where the collaborative approach provides a great forum to promote interoperability and openness," Raza says. "Our strategy is to drive an open ecosystem...and embrace open source as a way of getting things done."
What's interesting is that just last fall, HP dismissed open sourcing SDNs, and OpenDaylight. Ex-HPer Mike Banic had said when he was vice president of global marketing for HP Networking that open sourcing SDNs was "wrong" because it means passing the burden and investment of ensuring enterprise-class functionality, reliability and performance onto the customer.
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