Why I Left Rackspace and What About OpenStack

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.

"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.

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.