{"id":21,"date":"2011-05-17T21:53:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T01:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-05-17T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T01:53:32","slug":"microsoft-and-centos-strange-bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/2011\/05\/17\/microsoft-and-centos-strange-bedfellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and CentOS: strange bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Calibri; color: #3400ee} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline} -->This is an interesting analysis of MSFT vs REL vs CentOS.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/microsoft_and_centos\/\">http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/microsoft_and_centos\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m continually intrigued by how the location of &#8216;value&#8217; shifts in the IT industry. \u00a0It seems that software has this constant potential for being re-architected, and as a result, where the problem lies, shifts. \u00a0 \u00a0This article suggests that the real money-making opportunity in cloud computing right now is in management (ie, as opposed to in OSes or CPUs). \u00a0 This makes sense to me and jibes with what I saw when I worked in industry.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of how IBM, which once made oodles of money selling OSes and CPUs, eventually moved &#8216;up&#8217; the value chain to selling managed &#8216;solutions&#8217;. \u00a0 I think this was a remarkable reinvention. \u00a0 I wonder if Microsoft can and will eventually do something similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting analysis of MSFT vs REL vs CentOS. http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/microsoft_and_centos\/ I&#8217;m continually intrigued by how the location of &#8216;value&#8217; shifts in the IT industry. \u00a0It seems that software has this constant potential for being re-architected, and as a result, where the problem lies, shifts. \u00a0 \u00a0This article suggests that the real money-making opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/wing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}