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Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession

January 25, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

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. …

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Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not

December 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 13

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. …

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The Tension That Drives Innovation In Linux

May 8, 2019 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

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One Linux Stack To Rule HPC And AI

November 26, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …

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Red Hat Throws Its Full Support Behind Arm Server Chips

November 14, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 1

The gatekeeper to Arm in the datacenter has finally swung that gate wide open. …

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Red Hat Is The Gatekeeper For ARM In The Datacenter

May 5, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

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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