Wasteful government spending in IT, like government spending in most areas, has resisted significant reform across generations of both people and technology. And so taxpayers should probably not hold their breath… Read more »
Remember when Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, called Microsoft a ‘disaster’ last September at Techcrunch, and said that Bill Gates should return as CEO? And then in January this year, at… Read more »
The strained relationship between Oregon and Oracle goes from bad to worse: Governor John Kitzhaber seeks legal action against the vendor over its work on Cover Oregon. Read more »
For IT decision-makers and architects, there is enough inexpensive memory capacity on mainstream servers for SQL DBMSs to be optimized around the speed of in-memory data rather than the performance constraints… Read more »
Two things we learned from the imbroglio: Support policies are up for interpretation and vertical integration hurts OpenStack’s anti-lock-in message. Read more »
Locking in? Trying to replicate its Linux success in the cloud, Red Hat said it will not support Red Hat Linux customers who run a non-Red Hat OpenStack distribution. Read more »
Fear of litigation may have prevented cloud providers from adopting AWS APIs to begin with and today’s Oracle ruling may have proved them prescient. Read more »