

Why I Left Rackspace and What About OpenStack - garethr
http://dendrobates.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/rackspace-openstac/

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anotherjesse
Why I joined Rackspace: to make OpenStack awesome!

The folks I met at Rackspace share our (Anso Labs) vision of making OpenStack
the best cloud platform for themselves and others.

The "marketing" team at Rackspace were the folks who understood the importance
of OpenStack and worked to convince the rest of the company to open source
their cloud.

Sure there are growing pains. And one could point out technical areas that the
community has struggled with (automated testing against real clusters)... The
point is that everyone I've talked to from developers to the CEO understand
that OpenStack needs to be its own project. We (individually and as a company)
are trying to shepherd the project.

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jjdoe
"I think that Rackspace is trying to control Openstack rather than influence
it."

So that's why you're up in arms over them making a move to _reduce_ their
presence on the board? Sure, they should have handled it better, but it seems
silly to jump from a bumbling move to a power grab, especially when the point
was to reduce the near-total domination of Rackspace on the board after the
Anso purchase.

Wonder if there are more sour grapes behind this than you're letting on.

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lsc
is anyone renting out infrastructure using the OpenStack API? Seems to me like
it'll be more valuable both to consumers and to providers once there are
several inter-operable providers. Also, social proof would make the
traditionally conservative VPS providers more comfortable, I think.

