This actually looks like a pretty interesting idea. "Turnkey private cloud" might be attractive. Especially if they sell the Open Source/we teach you/you're independent part well.<p>Could potentially sell like hotcakes in Europe if they play the NSA-angle.<p>I can also envision a very sweet secondary market (partner with an open source ERP for example)
<i>"Canonical engineers will deliver an Orange Box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation"</i><p>They need a copy editor. That's a very awkwardly worded sentence.
"Canonical engineers will deliver an Orange Box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation"
This statement had me thinking... weird, ok, what's the Orange Box, but then it got even stranger below... the orange box is a "complete mobile cluster and an easy, low-risk way to deploy OpenStack cloud infrastructure on your premises".
If it's cloud, why do I need it on my premises? Isn't the whole point that it exists... you know... in the cloud??
I don't have a clear picture what all can be deployed on this... thing. Obviously the basics of a webserver, database, docker containers, etc., but this isn't where the value is.<p>It appears to have a wifi antenna— can it manage a corporate wifi deployment, with RADIUS or whatever? What about LDAP? Samba shares?<p>Can it supply an email/webmail service which I won't have to spend all day setting up?<p>For the stuff configured through these fancy visual tools, I assume there's a sane and secure way to back up my config and data offsite, and do a quick restore in case of failure/loss of the hardware.