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Why PayPal Chose OpenStack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the switching-brands dept.

AlbanX writes in with this story about Paypal's use of OpenStack. "PayPal's IT team has taken control of its technology release cycle by shifting key components of its IT infrastructure onto OpenStack. For PayPal, the decision to use components of OpenStack was based around speed to market. It allows the payments provider to untether its release cycle from those of vendor partners. 'PayPal has not historically been known for its fast reactions,' PayPal senior engineer Scott Carlson conceded to attendees at the VMworld conference in San Francisco this week. 'It has taken us six to nine months sometimes to react to our competitors.'"

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  1. Re: Reasons not to use PayPal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anonymous - check
    "Shitload" - check
    Not afraid of excessive punctuation - check

    Congrats, you are my new financial advisor, call me.