In fairness, as a company, you pretty much have to jump on the next bandwagon a lot of the time even if you have doubts whether it's there yet or is going to be a splash in the pan.
My story is that OpenStack didn't really work out but, if you were serious about the cloud thing, you sort of had to hop aboard even if, in general, the landscape ended up playing out differently with containers.
Itβs definitely pretty big in telco but the original vision was probably bigger relative to how containers played out than it was originally seen to be.
And yeah probably a sizable way from VMware but not ready for containers momentum which is ironically not a small part of initial VMware momentum from physical servers.
Enterprise is pivoting now, and have been for about 4y.
Many went to Nutanix for virtualization and containerization, but many shops will stay virtualization-only for security and governance reasons for a long time.
My story is that OpenStack didn't really work out but, if you were serious about the cloud thing, you sort of had to hop aboard even if, in general, the landscape ended up playing out differently with containers.