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1Mass of Contributors
OpenStack community officials say Linux is a great example of an open-source technology that has been widely adopted. However, comparatively, OpenStack has been and is being adopted and supported faster than Linux. For instance, OpenStack reached the same amount of contributors as Linux in one-seventh the time.
2Contributing Companies
3Downloads
4Internationally Loved
5Fifth Release
6Upcoming Sixth Release
7History
8Foundation
OpenStack is transitioning to a foundation governance model and is looking for an executive director to take the helm from Rackspace, which has been leading things. This move would be much like that of IBM, which dominated the Eclipse community before turning over governance of the effort to the Eclipse Foundation under executive director Mike Milinkovich.
9Growth
More than 150 companies have joined the OpenStack project since its inception, including AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and Yahoo. In April, 19 companies, including AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE, Cisco, ClearPath, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing and Yahoo, announced their intent to become Platinum or Gold members of the OpenStack Foundation when it launches.
10Event Attendees
In less than two years, OpenStack Summit & Conference attendance has grown from 75 people in July 2010 to more than 1,000 attendees in July 2012.