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The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System

March 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 44

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. …

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