It seemed to have developed a knack for showing up just at the right time in the right garage, whether it was when Steve and Steve were booting up Apple or Sergey and Larry were just beginingto crawl the web.
In the OpenStack space companies like Mirantis, Piston Cloud, CloudScaling, Nebula and even IBM, Canonical and Red Hat are beginingto benefit from this new consultant centric view of IT rather then the more traditional one size fits all approach of data center software popularized by VMware.