In fact, Opsware created products that (still) play an important role in large, private, datacenters. Hell, for what it's worth, their 3 main products were actually created to manage their own infrastructure. Which part of that is the joke?
Lack of a CLI accessible on managed nodes being a huge issue for datacenter work.
Staggeringly deficient database performance.
My recent experience has been with Puppet/Chef. They're still crufty in their own ways, but far more appropriate than Oopsware.
In fact, Opsware created products that (still) play an important role in large, private, datacenters. Hell, for what it's worth, their 3 main products were actually created to manage their own infrastructure. Which part of that is the joke?