IBM may not be the biggest provider of systems in terms of the size of its customer base, but of the top 5,000 or so companies worldwide that are not hyperscalers and cloud builders in their own right, Big Blue does have a sizeable share of the system budget. …
There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them pure when money is involved. …
With any operating system, there is a tension between leaving something that is stable and that works alone and adding new features to keep it relevant. …
The secret to the longevity of any big corporation is a nearly constant process of reinvention. …
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
In one fell swoop that is going to cost Big Blue a whopping $34 billion, IBM is going to become a modern software powerhouse in the datacenter that has to be contended with in an entirely different way. …
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. …
Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. …
The container craze on Linux platforms just took an interesting twist now that Red Hat is shelling out $250 million to acquire its upstart rival in Linux and containers, CoreOS. …
If any new hardware technology is going to get traction in the datacenter, it has to have the software behind it. …
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