The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group had a meetup Wednesday on OpenStack, whose tag line is the open source, open standards cloud. I was shocked at the large turnout. 287 people registered and it looked like a large percentage of them actually showed up. I wonder, was it the gourmet pizza, the free t-shirts, or are people really that interested in OpenStack? And if they are really interested,
![OpenStack - The Answer to: How do We Compete with Amazon? - High Scalability -](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/62bd72cdcf3979accd8c3cf4ea7a31652bacf0c5/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fhighscalability.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2024%2F02%2F4930301545_0b043dd4be_m-1.jpg)