Yeah, many people are furthering OpenStack by 1) building on it, in an open-source (or combined OSS+Comercial) fashion, and 2) Selling Consulting and Services.

Yeah, many people are furthering OpenStack by 1) building on it, in an open-source (or combined OSS+Comercial) fashion, and 2) Selling Consulting and Services. We are doing it by making an appliance that you plug servers into and get OpenStack. Developing the hardware gives us full control over orchestration and updates and many many other areas. We do have many of the contributors of OpenStack under one of our roofs (Mountain View, Seattle, Remote) and we do contribute a ton to OpenStack, both in code and the Foundataion. As far as the company goes, yes, we are a computer systems company, making hardware and software.