THE OCP PROCESS
“ No one had open-sourced hardware and data centre designs like that before ”
— Steve Helvie , OCP Foundation
“ They took the process one step further ; they open-sourced their results to a foundation and a community , which was pretty much unheard of at the time ,” Helvie continues . “ At the time , open source software was quite prevalent , but no one had open-sourced hardware and data centre designs like that .”
Today , the OCP ’ s board of directors comprises seven members – six companies and Bechtolsheim . In 2020 , the foundation ’ s revenues rose beyond $ 5bn ( excluding revenues reported by its member companies ) and , by 2023 , the OCP ’ s revenues are forecasted to reach $ 11.8bn . Together , the OCP ’ s members are working on changing the face of the data centre landscape . “ We currently have over 200 companies , and over 8,000 engineers working across 25-30 different common problems throughout the data centre ,” says Helvie .
THE OCP PROCESS
The OCP ’ s contribution process is similar to extant methodologies for open-sourcing software , but also
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