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Mark Shuttleworth Challenges OpenStack to Think about Leadership

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 13, 2016

In a video interview, Shuttleworth details his perception of the areas that OpenStack can improve to further accelerate cloud adoption. While Shuttleworth is optimistic that OpenStack will win as the dominant private cloud platform, he does see some ‘cruft’ around the edges of the project.

“In OpenStack we have doubled down on governance, but we have hamstrung leadership,” Shuttleworth said. “The result is user confusion and user frustration.”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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