[belluchan]

> “The big challenge around OpenStack stuff is that everyone that’s there talking, talking, talking, talking, talking — none of them has ever run infrastructure. So they have no idea what they’re talking about,” he said. “And there’s a few vocal people that do and have done stuff, and they’re just not able to push things through that entire process as rapidly as they should.”

Uh, Rackspace has built completely functional and running OpenStack infrastructure, multiple times over (many datacenters).

[kordless]

Every person I've talked to running OpenStack has run infrastructure before. Saying they have no idea what they are talking about is just a thinly veiled blaming statement. Also, adoption curves. It takes time.