>> Narrator: Live from San Juan, Puerto Rico It's theCUBE. Covering Blockchain Unbound. Brought to you by Blockchain Industries. (latin music) >> Hello and welcome back to theCUBE exclusive coverage in Puerto Rico for Blockchain Unbound I'm John Furrier, your host, here covering all the action in Puerto Rico as the global society and industry come together. Our next guest is Marhall Taplits he's the Chief Strategy Officer and Co Founder of Nynja.biz, check out their site, Nynja.biz. Marshall, thanks for joining me. >> Thank you. >> So tell about what you guys do. You guys are doing some disruptive stuff, tell us about what you guys do, then it will jam into a conversation. >> Sure, so are you familiar with WeChat in China, for example? >> Yeah. >> Okay great. So I've personally been living in China 15 years, so we've watched kind of the birth of the Chinese internet, which as we know, is a little different than the regular internet. >> A lot of mobile users. >> A lot of mobile users, 800 million China mobile subscribers alone. WeChat, basically, is a platform that started off as just a messenger but basically what it's done is it's integrated into every facet of Chinese society. To give you an example, you go to a restaurant, you scan the QR code, the menu comes up, you pick the food, you pay for the food, it comes, you walk out. Everything like that is in China. Everything like that is in Wuzhen China. So what we've done is we've kind of taken this concept, and we're working on a global version of it, that's cryptocurrency based, and we are working specifically with Chinese companies in order to help them go global as part of the China One Belt One Road program and working with companies like Alibaba, what have you, in order to help Chinese companies go overseas and take what they've built in China but operate globally with cryptocurrency. >> Are you guys in China? Cause it's been hard for companies to start companies in China. So you're living in China or you're working in China? >> Yeah so because we live in Shenzhen, right next to it is Hong Kong. Hong Kong is where our company is based. Hong Kong, as you know, previous British colony, the legal system, and the financial system-- >> And you domicile in Hong Kong, that's where you're based? >> Me personally in Shenzhen, but the company is in Hong Kong. So we also have a Wyoming corporation in the US. >> That's where all the action is. >> That's right >> That's where WeChat is >> That's right >> Alibaba's got Alipay and then there's more business to business with their app. So I get that WeChat's been highly successful. In fact we have a huge following on WeChat, Sou Kanai, Niki Bond, free content. But that brings up the question of Chinese kind of showing the way with mobile expansion, so their users are heavily mobile savy. >> Marshall: That's right. >> This is pretty obvious when you think about it, but in America and around the world, that's going to translate to the new user experience. So in your opinion, how would you describe the expectations that users have? Because you're living on the front end of the wave of what mobile's doing, I mean there's a lot of gamification going on, some if it's kind of creepy, but what is your view of the expectations that users have and what's different about what's currently available in the webstac, and the 20 year old e-commerce stacks, that are out there? >> Sure, I think the most important thing is reducing friction, all right. You don't want to be using platforms where you can not do it wherever you are whenever you are, you don't want to have to go through payment processes, you don't want to have to re-authenticate yourself across whatever platforms you use. And interestingly, when I first went to China, it was all about copying what was in the west over to there, but actually it's kind of the opposite now, right, so we basically want to take this concept of the frictionless digital life, and make it a global opportunity. And especially with BlockChain and cryptocurrency you have that really as an opportunity, because if you look at all the apps that are out there, and the platforms that are out there, the only ones that have gone past a billion users, WhatsApp, Instagram, whatever are the free ones. But as soon as you layer in payment, it becomes very locked. And as big as WeChat is, and as big as LINE is, but ultimately it's locked into the Rem and B system or Reo in Korea, what have you, so the cryptocurrency is really the first opportunity that the world's had to create platforms that can get up to a billion, two billion, three billion users that are able to pay. And we just think that's a once in a lifetime opportunity and we want to be part of it. >> So I got to ask you about the impact that cloud computing has had on this, obviously we've seen cloud computing destroy the data center model, allow people to get time to value faster, mobile on top, big data analytics using data, all this stuff's awesome stuff. So the question is, is that, that's kind of a horizontally disruptive view, so these stacks that are built old way where I got to own the stack end to end, yeah there's some standardization on the lower end of the stack. But now you're thinking about more of a horizontal, I got jurisdictions, I got regions, I got countries, I got sovereignty, all these things are in the melting pot of the cryptocurrency BlockChain, de-centralized applications, are major impacts to all those things. How do you see that playing out because, that's kind of what developers worry about, oh shit will this work on that chain? I got Neo I got this I got that, so the plumbing is totally a moving train right now. >> Marshall: That's right. >> But the business models are pretty obvious. So there's like a business ops thing going on. What Dev opts did for Cloud, you got this new abstraction thing going on with this world. What's your view on that, do you agree? Or what's your take? >> Yeah well you pretty much nailed it. I mean basically what's happening is over the last 10 or 15 years people have finally accepted that having your own server is kind of silly, you know, and most people now will just spin up whatever they need in terms of resources on TheCloud. But over the last couple years, you're really going more toward Edge Cloud, where the way the clouds work, is that basically it's pushing to get the least amount of latency and store the data as close to the user as possible. And then there's also regulatory in some countries now in terms of, if your users are from this country, you have to legally store the data in this area. So this is all kind of evolving. And if you look at the BlockChain technology, I think it's the payment version of that. So for example, everyone's always concerned about getting in and out of Fiat Currency, and how am I going to get back to dollars, and this and that, but I think what's going to wind up happening, is this is going to get pushed towards the edges and there will be opportunities and ways with exchanges and what have you to get in and out. But more importantly, it's going to be like, just other currencies, so for example, I live in China but I come to the US a few times a year, I also travel to Europe, I have some dollars, I have some Euros, I have some Rem and B, when I leave China, I don't immediately sell all of my Rem and B, I just keep it because at some point I'm going to need it. And I think what's going to happen in the cryptocurrency space is, especially on the larger BlockChains, like Ethereum and Neo and what have you, is people are just going to get used to keeping some of it and they're going to stop worrying about what the exact exchange rate is and how am I going to get in and out, and this and that, and they're just going to start treating it as part of their currency stack that they keep. >> Yeah as long as there's some level of stability. It's just like, I remember when I was growing up, there was no Euro, every country had their own currency. You had the French Franc, the Swiss Francs, the Deutsche Mark, Lira, etc, etc. But you're seeing that the viability of the money aspect, cause at the end of the day there's two things that we've identified in analysis, and I was talking about it last night, talked about it this morning on theCUBE, is the killer apps for BlockChain cryptocurrency, these sorts of apps is two things, money and marketplaces. >> Marshall: That's right. >> Everything else is just kind of circling around those two. >> Well there's more but certainly that's the main part of it >> Money, moving around. So the UK just announced with coin based, the Financial Conduct Authority, reading the news yesterday, has essentially said we're going to allow for the fast payment system to convert to Fiat. This is a government, the UK is a nation. This is the beginning, to your point, that if they don't get up to speed, the edge of the network will democratize them and kind of circle the wagons, if you will, so it's already happening. >> Yeah and I think what governments are starting to realize is hey guys this is just a technology and not only do you don't really have jurisdiction to control it, but also that you don't even have the technical means. So Wyoming is a good example of regulation coming into play, that just kind of accepts the presence that this now exists, right. And they're not going to try to make it something and fit it into the old way. So, and in terms of the stability of these coins, I think it is important because people want stability, but in other ways, if you don't look at the exchange rate, it's actually way more stable than the current system, and I'll give an example. In the last month or two, the prices of cryptocurrency have dropped almost 40%. Now if the stock markets and the global affects markets drop 40%, you'd have blood in the streets. But the crypto market is asset based instead of debt based and because it's so structurally sound it's able to handle these wild swings without actually collapsing the system, so in may ways, it's way more stable, and then as the market gaps and the buy in of these currencies get bigger and bigger, of course it's going to be more stable over time. >> Well I mean its stable from a fail standpoint, but a lot of emotional instability. People losing money for the first time. >> But that's just because they're-- >> That's a lot of speculation, right? >> There's a lot of speculating and then if they're down they feel like they lost but, that's life. >> People that are into the game, like you, were long on this. So what would you explain to someone, cause I have two, a lot of friends that have two schools of thought, that's a total scam, don't associate with that, to oh my god, that's the next biggest wave, lets get our surfboards out there and lets get on this, there's a multiple set coming in, it's the biggest thing we've seen, and everything in between. How do you explain it to people for the first time? >> It's just your traditional curve, there's early adopters and what have you, and if you were one of the guys buying up domaine names in the early 90s, you know some people would say I can't believe you're spending $100,000 buying up domaine names, but some of them now are worth, you know, tens of millions of dollars. But again, this is the speculatory piece of it. And there's no shortage of opportunities for speculation and I encourage everybody to speculate a little bit because what it does is it gets you a taste of the technology. And usually, when you have some money on the line, you pay more attention, so if speculation is what gets people interested, and it gets them watching it and understanding the technology and using it, then I'm all for it, but people shouldn't be speculating with money they don't have. Anything could happen in the short term. Nobody knows what's going to happen with any specific currency. But in terms of the technology itself, this is a revolution way bigger than the internet itself. This is where you're getting, not only, communications like the internet, but financing governance and all as one. Programmable money, programmable contracts, that wipes out finance, it wipes out legal, it whites out governance in many ways. So this is a huge evolution in human society, and we've termed this Open Unity actually. And so we believe that society has to reach a state of open unity in order to go into the singularity as we would envision it wanting to be, as something that's under our control. >> Yeah and I think one of the things, first of all that's a great statement, well said. I'll just kind of put some reality on that, connect the dots, is that if you look at the trajectory of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services was laughed at years ago. S3 came out, compute storage building, basic building blocks and a slew more services. What Cloud did for software developers, and what they've disrupted from a business standpoint, dev ops, it's proven. What open source has done, even going back to the old red-hat days and linux, is that now a tier one global citizen in software, you look at those two trends, you can connect that dots to what you just said. And what made Cloud great was they made application developers have access to programmable infrastructure. >> Marshall: Exactly. >> You're talking about a whole nother level of software programmability, money, marketplace, society, >> Yeah you hit it on the head. >> We're there right? >> That's exactly right, so when a programmer wants to start a business, instead of going to create an LLC, and getting their EIN Tax ID or whatever, and when they want to go into Europe, and dealing with that and then trying to open a bank account, which is almost impossible, internationally now, instead of that, you just have your SDKs and your APIs or whatever and you've got access to money, program adding, you can take money, you can move money around, globally, frictionless, permissionless, with governancy, smart contracts-- >> They might not not need an SDK dashboard, its a console, click, click, click, smart contracts, governance, turn key. >> And one of the things we're working on with Nynja in particular, is this kind of on-demand marketplace and putting together a de-centralized teams for work. And this is all driven by smart contracts. So one of the issues with the economy is the huge booms and busts that people have in the economy. And if you look at the root cause of that, my personal opinion, is that it's because of payment terms. So for example, if I do work for you, and then there's an invoice, but it's not due for 30 days, now your business may be structurally sound, but the truth is your cashflow is all over the place. With BlockChain technology, we can actually do real time payments. You could be paid minute by minute, hour by hour. Real time, program, contract. So we're going to create very flat even money flows through the entire economy globally, and we're going to just completely remove these booms and busts that are really nothing more than just cashflow issues that are compounded and compounded at a global level. >> I mean I lived through the dot com bubble, I was actually part of it on the front end, on the euphoria side, as well as on the crash. Part of the whole search paradigm, google right there. Key words, all that stuff happening, growth, massive growth. So I saw that, the scammers in there, or the bubble people, that's what we called them. But the reality is, everything happened. It was pet foods online, you could get shopping delivered to your house. So again, to your point, it's a little euphoric right now, but what's different is, is you have now, community data. See what I see happening is, it's not a major bubble crash, because self government, self governing, self governance, is a community dynamic. So I think there's going to be a lot of self healing, inside the networks themselves. You're already seeing it here, a lot of people, bad act is being identified, investors flight to quality, looking at quality deals. Interesting times, your thoughts? >> Well I mean you know, we've been through many evolutions of society, we've had surf-dom, we've had monarchies, we've had representative democracies, we have all these things, and I just think the next evolution is decentralized governance. And we don't even know what that means yet, because it's just starting, but I think we can all, if we can close our eyes and really think about it. I think it's pretty obvious what the issues are with our current system and not just the US, but globally, and I think we have an opportunity here to build in organic program governance. And what's really special about BoxChain technology is if I program it to do X, it's going to do X. So we don't need to, I don't need to know who you are to trust you. I don't need to worry about where we're going to sue each other, or we're going to have arbitration if things go wrong. We're just going to make an agreement, and we're going to program it that way, and that's it. And now the next phase is, I could build on top of that trusting that that's just going to happen. So you can create these chains of trust, and that can happen anywhere in the world. So I think this is a whole nother-- >> Sounds like a bunch of web services. >> Well in many ways, in terms of the architecture, sure you could absolutely think of it like that. >> The reusability, the leverage is amazing. All right, so I want to just end the segment Marshall, take a minute to end the segment, to talk about what you're working on, Nynja coin, Nynja, N-Y-N-J-A .biz, you guys have a product, you got a BlockChain enabled platform, you got a coin, take a minute to explain what you're working on. >> Basically we want to provide the tools and services to help people live in this new reality. So in order to basically function in the world that we're entering into, we're going to need tools that far surpass what's currently available in terms of the messengers, the web sites, all these things. We need to be operating at a level that takes communication completely frictionless, payment completely frictionless, and governance completely frictionless. And we have to put this all together, and that's what we're doing with Nynja. We're staring with a global communicator, which is basically, if you want to take WeChat, telegram, whatever, but we have about 50 additional features that really take communications to the next level. And then on top of it, creating the baseline with cryptocurrency payment, and also smart contract wizards and helping people kind of get these teams going and get paid and organize their financial life in a de-centralized way. So we're just basically going to be the next generation of these messenger type platforms with BlockChain integrated. And what you're going to see is that over the next couple years you're going to get to the first companies that are achieving not just a billion or two billion or three billion users, but paying users, and we're going to be one of the probably three to five platforms that are offering tools at the global level like this. >> And have you got an IC already or not? >> We've just started our private ICO about two weeks ago. We're getting tremendous support in Asia. Quite frankly, the US is not seeing it as much-- >> Is it a utility token or security? >> Utility Token, and I think it's really telling, interesting, coming here. It's the first time I've been doing the presenting. We spoke yesterday at the d10e and we also spoke at d10e in Korea a week or two ago, and the response is incredible. And I think the reason is because-- >> The Asian market gets it. >> Well they're already living in this world within their own confines in terms of the messenger with their payment and governance built in, so when I tell them that we're going to do this globally with crypto, immediately they get it. I'm having trouble here, especially in these five minute pitches which is ridiculous, it's like a chop shop, I don't know how to communicate the idea within this short time frame, so, what I'm looking for while we're here this week is just to find people who really want to take an hour or two or even people like yourself who want to do interviews and just kind of really talk to people and really explain-- >> Well platform is complex, a lot of pieces to it. It's a system, but the value you offer is essentially offering developers, who are building products, for tools that you've built so they can scale faster. That sounds like your value. >> That's right and although I can't say specifically, we're also working on a deal that's going to get us started with about 15 million active users on day one, so that's very exciting and we're really really excited about that. >> And the coins will be utility of measures, what? >> Sorry? >> Well your utility coins going to be measuring what, what's the main token economics that drives the-- >> For the ICO economics? >> Your Nynja Coin. >> So basically we're releasing 5 billion tokens, 45% of them will be sold. There's five cents a token, so the hard cap, by definition is about 112 million, actually we're planning to do the public sale in April, but we may cancel it or postpone it just because the private sale is going really well, but we'll see how that goes. But in terms of once it's live, this will basically be the utility token of the entire eco-system, so anybody, not just within our Nynja App or platform, but even people, I don't know if you know XMPP federation, like back in the day-- >> Yeah you know about real messaging >> If you could think of us as the next version of XMPP federation, but using cryptocurrency in order to avoid bad actors by making it very expensive to do bad things, and very cheap to do good things and globally. >> So it's like Twitter you can create a bot instantly, but if there's coins involved, you'd have to spend to get it. >> That's right and also people could spin up nodes that are basically their own Twitters and decide if those Twitters of their own, their Nynja boxes of their own, are either just internally, or you could specify specifically context or group of context-- >> We agree, that's a great way to get bad actors out because it costs them money. And it's de-centralized, there's no single spot. >> That's right, if email came out today, when cryptocurrency existed, there would be no spam. Because it would be expensive as hell to send more than a few a second, but it would still be free and for everybody generally, and you wouldn't even have spam. So we think we can do that for messaging globally. >> Great. Marshall, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate it, check out Nynja. Marshall Taplits is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Nynja.biz, check them out online. Check out the website, it's in Asia, bringing that culture of mobile and fast moving, real time apps, to the rest of the developers. This is theCUBE coverage in Puerto Rico for BlockChain Unbound exclusive two days of coverage. We'll be right back with more, after this short break, thanks for watching.

(upbeat music) >> Narrator: Live from Boston, Massachusetts it's The CUBE covering OpenStack Summit 2017, brought to you by the OpenStack Foundation, Red Hat, an additional ecosystem of support. >> Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman with my co-host John Troyer. Happy to welcome back to the program. It's been a couple of years but Mark Baker, who is the Ubuntu Product Manager for OpenStack at Canonical. Thanks so much for joining us. >> Oh, you're welcome, it's a pleasure to be back on. >> All right so you said you've been coming to these shows for over six years now. You sit on the OpenStack Foundation. We've been talking this week. There's all that fuzz and misinformation and God what does (faint) say this morning? It's like fear is one of the most powerful weapons out there. Sometimes there's just misinformation out there but for you, OpenStack today where you see it in general and in your role with Canonical? >> Sure so OpenStack is one of the cornerstones of our business. It's certainly a big revenue generator for us. We continue to grow customers in that space, and that mirrors what we see in the OpenStack community. So all of the numbers you'll have seen in the OpenStack survey showed that adoption continues to grow. Sure, there is, I don't know if I want to call it fake news out there but there's definitely a meme is going that okay, OpenStack is perhaps declining in popularity. That's not what we see in adoption. We see adoption continuing to grow, more customers coming onto the platform, more revenue is coming from those customers. >> Yeah Mark any data you can share? We did have we had Heidi Joy on from the foundation to talk about the survey. I mean big you know adoption over 74% of deployments are outside of the US. We talked to Mark and Jonathan this morning. They said well that's where more than 74% of the population of the world lives outside of the US on any trends or data points specifically about a bunch of customers. >> Sure so we we definitely have big customers outside the US. You look at perhaps one of our best well-known is Deutsche Telekom, obviously a global telco that's situated in Europe that's deploying OpenStack. Really at the core of their network and I was going into multiple countries, and we see not only more customers but also those existing customers growing their estate and we've got other engagements as well in the Nordics with Tele2, another telco that has a larger stake too. And increasingly out in Asia too. So we definitely see this as being a global trend towards adoption. >> All right and Mark, there was you know for years, it was okay. How many distributions are there out there? How many do we need on out there? Why do customers turn to Ubuntu when they want OpenStack? >> So the challenge of operating infrastructure is scale. It's not can I deploy it? It's not so much even you know how performant is it? It's really kind of boils down to economics, and a large part of that economics is how are you able to operate that cloud efficiently? We've proven time and time again that a lot of the work that we've put in since the very beginning around tooling, around operations is what allows people to stand up these clouds, operate them at scale, upgrade them, apply patches, do all of those things but operate them efficiently at scale without having to scale the number of staff they require to operate that cloud, yeah. >> I think back to the staff that's been around for at least 15 years is company spent 70 or 80% or even more of their budget on keeping the lights on, running around the data center doing that. Anything you could tell us about OpenStack and how that shifts those economics for the data center? >> Sure, so OpenStack has gone through a typical sort of evolution that many technologies go through and we liken it to Linux obviously, we're a Linux company. In the beginning with Linux many people would build their own distributions, they'd compile their own kernels, they'd make modifications. A lot of the big lighthouse users of OpenStack went through that process. We are seeing the adoption changing now. So people are coming to companies like us with an OpenStack distribution that's off-the-shelf, ready and packaged with reference architectures, proven methodologies for implementing this successfully, and consuming it much more like that. Without that package, this free software can actually be very expensive to operate. So you have to get getting those economics right comes from having those packages for people to be able to deploy, manage it and scale it efficiently on-site. >> So you've been involved with OpenStack throughout the whole evolution. Is there anything you see now and 2017 at this summit? This is my first summit. I'm very impressed as an outsider. Again, we started off talking about what you hear from the outside, talking to people here at the show, people standing up their very first clouds this year, very bullish very kind of conscious of okay this is a, this is not a winner-take-all world. There's a place for OpenStack. >> Mark: Yeap. That's actually very kind of clear and very well fit. Do you see a difference in the customers that are you're working with now in 2017, their maturity level, their expectations than perhaps you did a few years ago? >> So yes certainly, customers have complex and diverse requirements, and so they want to deliver different styles of applications in different ways, and OpenStack is a great way of delivering machines, whether it's virtual machines or container machines to applications and provides a very robust and agile environment for doing that. But other styles of application may require to run natively on Bare Metal. OpenStack can do some of that, and do a lot of that but we're seeing, certainly seeing customers understanding okay, OpenStack has a role, public cloud has a role, container technologies have a role. A lot of these intersect together. Then it's really our objective is to help them whether they're choosing container platforms and OpenStack, whether they're using public cloud to ensure that they're able to manage this in an efficient way to deliver value to their business. >> You talked about operability and we talked with Mark Shuttleworth. He was also, we were marking that Ubuntu, the operating system is by far the majority choice in OpenStack and in a lot of cloud projects. Can you talk a little bit more about operability? Again the traditional dig from outside the project a few years ago science project, hard to use, need to have computer scientists to even get it running, which as a former Linux person myself, I think I find that a little bit insulting. It's rocket science but it's not that, it's not that complicated. >> (faint) Were involved in the beginning. >> That is true. But can you just talk a little bit about operability in terms of getting what you're seeing, in terms of either private cloud or at people standing up, the operations team needed, the maintainability day to day operation, that sort of thing in a modern OpenStack environment? >> Yeah, so OpenStack is becoming, certainly a lot of the enterprise customers that we're working with now is becoming another platform that will sit alongside the VMware. There may be some intersection of that. Our goal is to have common operations. So if I want to deploy applications into containers, I could do that in to Kubernetes or just running on VMware, I could do that on OpenStack, I could do it in public cloud to have common tooling and common operations across as much of the estate as we can because that's where I'll get efficiencies. It's where I'll get smart economics and smart operations. So well definitely, people are looking for those solutions. They know they're going to have diverse environments. They're looking for commonality that runs across those diverse environments and Ubuntu provides a great deal of commonality across. >> Mark, can you speak to Canonical's involvement in some of the projects? I know you have a lot of contributors but where particularly did your company spend the most focus? >> So, OpenStack, the initial challenge with OpenStack was to deliver capability and functionality. Canonical was one of those contributors in the early days. It was helping drive new features, helping drive new capabilities in OpenStack. More or less, we've switched to addressing that operations problem. There are many clouds out there that's stuck on older versions. For OpenStack to succeed as it moves forward, we need to be able to show you can upgrade gracefully without service interruption. We're demonstrating that with customers. So a lot of the work that we've been doing is how we streamline these operations, how we crowdsource, if you like, best practice for operating these clouds of scale to deliver efficient value to the business. >> Oh, another interesting conversation here at the show has been about containers. >> Yeah. >> Both Kubernetes and I know Canonical been involved with with Alex D. So can you talk a little bit about the interrelation of containers with OpenStack and how you're seeing that play out? >> Yes, absolutely so containers is all over OpenStack. We do smile somewhat when people talk about containers being a new thing with OpenStack as we've been deploying OpenStack inside LXD containers for several years now. So many of our customers are running containerized OpenStack today in production but this there's certainly this great intersection of that running Kubernetes on top of OpenStack. For example, we're seeing a lot of interest in that. We deploy, as they say, our OpenStack services in containers to give flexibility around architectural choices. We're very happy to run Canonical's distribution of kubernetes inside of OpenStack, which we do, and say have customers doing that. So there are also people looking at how you can containerize control plane in other ways. We're certainly keeping tabs on that, and you know exploring that with some customers but containers are all across the OpenStack ecosystem. They're not competitive. They're very much sort of building a higher level of value for customers so they have choice in how they deploy their applications. >> All right, Mark anything new this week surprised you or any interesting conversations that you'd want to share? >> So I came into this knowing that there was going to be a lot of discussion around containerized applications in OpenStack and containers perhaps, and the control plane. The thing that has surprised me actually has been the speed with which people are looking at OpenStack for edge cloud. Cloud on the edge, it's kind of a telco thing but cloud on the edge is how I can deliver capabilities and services, infrastructure services in an environment, in a mobile environment, it could be attached to a cell phone mask for example. It's not a traditional big data center but you need to deliver content and data out to mobile devices. So there's a lot of discussion especially today, within the telco community here at OpenStack Summit about how OpenStack can deliver those kinds of capabilities on the edge. That's been interesting and a surprise for me to see how quickly it's come up. >> All right Mark, want to give you the final word as to what you want people taking way of Ubuntu's participation in OpenStack. >> Well, some of this talk about OpenStack you know is it had its day in the sun, there are other things now taking over. You need to I think people out there will need to understand that OpenStack is deeply embedded inside big companies like AT&T, and like Deutsche Telekom. It's going to be there for a decade or more, right. So OpenStack is definitely here to stay. We continue to see our business growing. The number of customers Canonical is working with deploying OpenStack continues to grow. Ubuntu as a platform for OpenStack continues to grow. So it's definitely going to be part of the infrastructure as we roll forward. Yes, you'll see it working more in conjunction with those container technologies and application platforms. Parsers for example but it's here. It's just no longer quite the bright new shiny thing it used to be. It's kind of getting to be part of regular infrastructure. >> All right, well Mark not everything could be as bright and shiny as the Ubuntu orange shirt. So thank you so much for joining us again. We'll be back with more coverage here. 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