[peterwwillis]

> Impressive backing by the big name companies.

From someone who works at big name companies: this should not impress anyone. Big companies love slapping their name on things that give them "innovation" credibility. It's like Pepsi sponsoring the X Games.

> why a separate project like this

This is an OpenStack project, so it's not vendor-specific. It's also supposed to be a new "standard container", which I highly doubt will happen because they're just slapping together two other projects.