A few things going on here, 1. According to Business Insider (BI), PayPal is using Fuel from Mirantis to manage its OpenStack deployment. 2. BI also announced

A few things going on here, 1. According to Business Insider (BI), PayPal is using Fuel from Mirantis to manage its OpenStack deployment. 2. BI also announced that Fuel was released on March 25 under the Apache 2.0 License. However, the fuel website points to a form that appears to give free access to fuel under a creative commons attribution, noncommercial, share alike license, with additional licensing options available from Mirantis. 3. To top it all off, the CEO of Mirantis contacted BI and said the information about PayPal migrating over was incorrect and based off of second-hand knowledge (as seen on the update in the bottom). 4. BI also spoke to paypal who stated they are diversifying their VM infrastructure to "enable choice and agility", not replacing VMware. So, based on all this, it sounds like what really happened is PayPal decided to implement OpenStack to allow for a more diverse internal set of tools to develop infrastructure. A miscommunication occurred somewhere, which resulted in the BI and Forbes story. http://www.businessinsider.com/a-dangerous-sign-for-vmware-paypal-chooses-rival-openstack-2013-3#ixzz2OeJgF5JI http://www.businessinsider.com/a-dangerous-sign-for-vmware-p... https://fuel.mirantis.com/ https://fuel.mirantis.com/