In preparation for the recently held OpenStack Summit in Paris, the OpenStack Foundation conducted one of its regular surveys of operators and application developers, who were asked to provide feedback on their experiences…
One clear finding was that the number of OpenStack clouds in active use is greater than what was seen in recent surveys, as administrators move from evaluation stage to actual deployment. About 66 percent of OpenStack deployments were being used by organizations in IT, with telecommunications and academic deployments making up about a tenth of the remainder, and all others representing around 15 percent.
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The open-source movement has produced some of the most widely utilized software in the world, a huge economic value driven by a widely dispersed community who believe contributing good work is often its own reward. Outside of the world of computer science, however, these strategies are still relatively niche. A San Francisco startup called Assembly is trying to change all that, by evolving the open-source model to easily incorporate disciplines outside coding and to include a shared profit motive as well. Today the company is announcing a $2.9 million round of funding it will use to help expand its platform.
