Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The 'Innovation' Battle

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For those of us who have accepted that IaaS (infrastructure as a service) is all about utility provision of a commodity then innovation is ...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

On Evolution, Strategy, Cycles and Bias

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On Evolution Many years ago I developed a model of how activities (i.e. things we do) evolve due to competition both demand (user) and su...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Where would we be if Linus wrote an MS-DOS clone 20 years ago?

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In response to my discussion on the Trouble with OpenStack , I get a lot of questions of the kind "Where would we be if Linus wrote a...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Could CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Open Nebula and Open Stack all win in the cloud?

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I was asked a question whether we could follow a different road and have a market of AWS clones with multiple open source systems providin...

The trouble with OpenStack

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Depending upon which analyst or flat earther you listen to, then OpenStack rules. I don't buy this for a second and instead take the vi...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

The console.log() to printf() conudrum

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"What's the difference between console.log() and printf()" is an interesting question. One which can dive into the semantics...
Monday, July 08, 2013

A question of standards ... and patents

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Variation is essential for competition and competition is essential for evolution. At first glance, you could argue that we never need ...
Friday, July 05, 2013

On Prism, European Clouds and European Cloud Standards

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First, as I've said several weeks ago,  I love PRISM .  This is not because I think PRISM is a good idea but a great opportunity to...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

An interest in interest

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Today, I noticed two adverts. One for some form of card with an APR of 627%, one for a current account with around 2.5% interest. The probl...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

There can be only one ...

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Many years ago, at OSCON 2007, I gave a talk on the importance of open sourced standards to create competitive markets in the developing ut...
Monday, July 01, 2013

Where, Why, How, What and When

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The point of mapping a system or line is business is more than just promoting a focus on needs,  a mechanism of communication and collaborat...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

A guide to mapping

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Whilst there are many methods and mental models that can be used for mapping a business environment, the act of mapping is a critical ste...