The driver landscape is something that any practicing GL dev must face unless you enjoy having only a fraction of potential customers able to enjoy your product. (These are the drivers you’ll have to work with in order to actually ship a product. If you’re just a dev playing at home with one driver you’ll probably not have to deal with any of this gritty real-world stuff.)
If all you’ve ever done is use D3D then you better strap yourself in because the available GL drivers for Windows/Linux are all over the map:
Read more at Rich Geldreich’s Blog.
I am very excited to have HP increase its commitment in the OpenDaylight Project to the Platinum membership level. They are a major player in the networking space and will bring new perspectives the OpenDaylight developer community. HP is one of the few companies in the world that provides the full technology stack from infrastructure to apps, and is a significant end user of technology. They’re one of the few companies who have all the technology needed to architect and run a cloud at scale in-house and they do it all with open source. In fact their entire cloud strategy is based on OpenStack.