[anotherjesse]

Why I joined Rackspace: to make OpenStack awesome!

The folks I met at Rackspace share our (Anso Labs) vision of making OpenStack the best cloud platform for themselves and others.

The "marketing" team at Rackspace were the folks who understood the importance of OpenStack and worked to convince the rest of the company to open source their cloud.

Sure there are growing pains. And one could point out technical areas that the community has struggled with (automated testing against real clusters)... The point is that everyone I've talked to from developers to the CEO understand that OpenStack needs to be its own project. We (individually and as a company) are trying to shepherd the project.