2) Contrary to some of the wilder theories on social media, there are no signs that Intel or Rackspace are abandoning OpenStack. This move was specificaly about the end of the OSIC joint partnership for the test cluster after ~2 years.

Key facts worth noting:

- Both Intel and Rackspace are high level sponsors of the OpenStack Summit next month in Boston.
- Intel is giving a keynote in Boston.
- We'll be featuring a large Rackspace private cloud customer, GE, during the opening keynote in Boston.
- Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes said in a February blog post that OpenStack private cloud was among their businesses "growing rapidly, at annualized rates in the high double digits.”
- And as Kolla PTL Michal tweeted: "Intel is still around #openstack”[1]