Our vision, mission, objectives and design principles serve as the framework for the definition of our long term roadmap and guide every aspect of our project by describing what we need to accomplish in order to continue to fulfill our promise of building a state-of-the-art open source toolkit that addresses the scalability, flexibility and security requirements of large-scale production systems.

The requirements of our users are the driving force behind all our development efforts. OpenNebula features fulfill real needs of leading IT organizations running production environments. Cloud Computing is a highly competitive market that presents challenges for the continued success of OpenNebula, we must ensure that we can deliver a product that is compelling to users in order to continue to be able to demonstrate our vision for the cloud. This requires us to be agile and flexible in order to quickly adapt to our user needs and the market challenges. So the roadmap needs to be flexible enough to deal with and take advantage of rapid changes in cloud and data center developments. This is the reason why we only publish our short-term roadmap, which is the description of the features planned for the next release of the software.

When we create the short-term roadmap and plan the features for the next release, we prioritize:

• The features demanded by the projects sponsoring the open-source project
• The features demanded by the organizations supporting the open-source project with a commercial subscription
• The most demanded features by users and integrators

A detailed list of planed features for the upcoming release of OpenNebula is available in the development page.