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At its first full Board of Directors meeting, due to be held Tuesday August 28th, The OpenStack Foundation will be considering among other things applications from VMware, Intel, and NEC to become Gold Members of the foundation.
They would be joining prior Gold Members like Cisco, Dell, NetApp and Yahoo! The Foundation already numbers AT&T, Canonical, HP, Rackspace, IBM, Nebula, Red Hat, and SUSE as its Platinum members.
The VMware application form [PDF] is personally signed by VMware CTO Steve Herrod (pictured below).

VMware CTO Steve Herrod keynoting at 1st Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley in 2008
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