OpenStack Celebrates 3 Years of Building Open Source Cloud Platform

Grazed from CIO. Author: Thor Olavsrud.

Today, OpenStack turns 3. The open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, released under the Apache license, launched in July 2010 with a seemingly simple idea: to deliver a ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Launched in July 2010 with code donated by Rackspace and NASA, OpenStack has become one of the fastest growing open source efforts in technology: More than 500 individuals from more than 200 different companies contributed to its latest release, Grizzly.

Developers have contributed more than 1 million lines of code, and the stack currently has more than 70,000 contributions from more than 120 countries—an average of 238 contributions per month. The first OpenStack Design Summit & Conference, held in July 2010, boasted 75 attendees. The most recent conference, held in April, had 3,000, and the next one is expected to have more…

"It’s the most successful software project I’ve ever been involved with," says John Igoe, vice president of Private Cloud at RackSpace and a founding member of the OpenStack Foundation. Igoe notes that he’s been involved with his share of billion dollar software businesses, "but nothing can match this trajectory."…

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