OpenStack at 10 years old: A failure on its own terms, a success in its own niche

And with China's web giants showing it is capable of enormous scale, there's still plenty of potential

Analysis When OpenStack announced itself on July 19, 2010, it gave itself a mission to produce the ubiquitous OpenSource Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable."...