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I agree with the closing statements that facebook is making a point here, it strongly says "we are here for the long haul". I think openness like this also advances datacenter technology and efficiency as a whole, its one aspect that's overlooked by most of us but plays a crucial role in scaling. If you can reduce power consumption, improve cooling and squeeze more servers in racks then we are looking at a lot more hardware to play with. I cant see small startups benefiting from this but large scale companies definitely, twitter comes to mind. Their communication platform will only continue to require more processing power and capitalizing on open compute would be a key growth advantage for them.