The Numbers Behind OpenStack’s Success

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Sean Michael Kerner
Nov 1, 2015

TOKYO – The numbers don’t lie, OpenStack is the most active open-source cloud project and perhaps the most active open-source effort of all time. In a session at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Jesus Gonzalez-Barhona, co-founder of Bitergia, detailed the quantitative state of the Open Cloud.

Bitergia has been providing and analyzing data analysis reports to the OpenStack Foundation’s Activity dashboard for several years. Gonzalez-Barhona explained that when analyzing the open cloud, first he runs a transparency analysis to see how much information is publicly available.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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