Hugh wrote:
There is room for innovation in infrastructure but it is hard to
become a unicorn there since the area is mostly occupied by giants:
- Amazon
- Microsoft
- Google
- Oracle...
Being cloud platform agnostic is smart. How you do it isn't something
I know much about.
I wonder if Apple
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:12:13 -0500
Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> The whole CentOS/Rocky/Alma/Oracle/SUSE/RHEL dustup has brought some
> instability to the realm (and for those of us old enough, bears
> remarkable resemblance of the old SysV/OSF1 wars). Ditto some of the
> jerk moves
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 3:51 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
| Old Unicorns came from different times. 25 years ago, it wasn't obvious that
> Linux would be where it is (and isn't).
> |
> | Speak for yourself.
> |
> | I was kinda certain that Linux would overtake Unix early in its life;
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 3:51 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> There is room for innovation in infrastructure but it is hard to become a
> unicorn there since the area is mostly occupied by giants:
>
Almost by definition, infrastructure cannot and should not be a place for
disruptive
| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk
| On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:19 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <
| talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
|
| It seems to me that Linux has won and been commoditized on the server side.
| > No high-level discussion needs to address this. Several distros are good
| > enough
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:19 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
It seems to me that Linux has won and been commoditized on the server side.
> No high-level discussion needs to address this. Several distros are good
> enough and almost interchangeable in abilities.
>
| From: ac via talk
| I have been wondering about tech unicorns and Linux.
It seems to me that Linux has won and been commoditized on the server
side. No high-level discussion needs to address this. Several distros
are good enough and almost interchangeable in abilities.
On the PC side, if
On 2023-11-24 09:50, ac via talk wrote:
I have been wondering about tech unicorns and Linux.
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I have been wondering about tech unicorns and Linux.
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Does anyone on the list actually know (as in personal experience)
whether/which (or
