There is sufficient open-source infrastructure so that you don't need to buy enterprise software.
Meanwhile, the OpenStack Foundation itself is in the middle of its own transition as it looks to bring on other open-source infrastructure projects that are complementary to its overall mission of making open-source infrastructure easier to build and consume.
In summer 2011, Mirantis was a 150-person IT services company doing consulting around open-source infrastructure technologies.
The source infrastructure, i.e., graphite-lined assembly, heavy-water system, gas handling system, and helium liquefier cooling system, has been tested and all systems operate as predicted.
According to the company's LinkedIn profile, and its (now-offline) home page, it builds "beautiful data analysis software powered by cutting-edge open source infrastructure".
And, in fact, in a world with increasing levels of open-source infrastructure, IP tends to be less a driver of platform advantage than you'd imagine.
Mickos was CEO of MySQL from 2001 to 2009 and is now the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company behind the Eucalyptus open-source infrastructure for doing cloud computing on clusters.
One is in astronomy, where there is a longstanding tradition (caused in part by scarce, and thus shared, physical resources like radio telescopes) of sharing open data, as well as an evolved, open source infrastructure for virtual collaboration (Endnote 8).
We have found out that Dropbox has quietly acquired a company called Parastructure, a startup still in stealth that builds data-analysis software on top of open source infrastructure.
OpenStack, the open-source infrastructure project that aims to give enterprises the equivalent of AWS for the private clouds, today announced the launch of its 17th release, dubbed "Queens".
