Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …
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. …
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
The gatekeeper to Arm in the datacenter has finally swung that gate wide open. …
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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