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<p>I used to work on an "datacenter as a service" offering from Sun
(now Snoracle). We made a few cubic yards of dollars from
providing datacenters for the US military to do moderately
confidential processing. Most of the equipment in the buildings,
though, were el-cheapo dells. <i>They</i> took money away in
trailer-truck loads.</p>
<p>IBM had and has a similar offering, and similar dell envy. I
suspect this is a move to make a credible offering in the next few
RFPs.</p>
<p>Amazon wants the same thing.<br>
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<p>--dave<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-11-07 10:59 a.m., D. Hugh
Redelmeier via talk wrote)
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The takeover seems to be about "cloud". IBM doesn't seem to be as big
a cloud player as they need to be. Red Hat hasn't failed here but I
would not say that it has been a great success. I'm surprised how
Ubuntu seems to have much more share than Red Hat, for very little
fundamental work.
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davecb@spamcop.net">davecb@spamcop.net</a> | -- Mark Twain
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