Facebook Open Compute Project: A history of the project that ate the hardware market - Business Insider

From an OCP market snapshot

"Since it launched in 2011, OCP has:

• Saved Facebook $2 billion.
• Cut Fidelity Investments' data center electric bill by 20%.
• Nabbed Microsoft as a board member, meaning Microsoft is using OCP hardware in its huge data centers and contributing back to the designs.
• Ditto for Apple.
• Created better careers for hardware designers, who can now collaborate instead of being forbidden to share trade secrets.
• Launched an ecosystem of products and startups.
• Created a more than $1 billion business for at least one Chinese manufacturer.
• Put networking giant Cisco on notice.
• Convinced HP to stop fighting the movement and join it."

Facebook Open Compute Project: A history of the project that ate the hardware market - Business Insider