The OpenPOWER consortium was born of IBM’s own volition only two years ago last month. Back then, OpenPOWER was a partnership between five companies, IBM, Google, Mellanox Technologies, NVIDIA and Tyan. Recently, the OpenPOWER Foundation marked their two year anniversary by talking about the growth of the foundation and its membership to 149 members in 22 countries and the broad licensing that has occurred thanks to IBM’s open licensing model. I talked about the OpenPOWER Foundation back in April of last year and the announcement of IBM’s new Power8 processors with their OpenPOWER partners. Since launch and last April’s announcement, OpenPOWER has really come along quite a bit and I wanted to take a 50,000 foot level view at where OpenPOWER started and where IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation have gone since then.