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Platformonomics TGIF #122: April 3, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email I made another appearance on the Telco in 20 podcast, where we talked about hundreds of billions of HyperCAPEX spend and asked what ever happened to the…
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The Cloud is Not Flat – 2019 Edition
The 2019 geographic view of Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant: Previous geographic locales Seattle, Lesser Seattle, and Nichelandia remain unchanged. A new locale, Next Generation Hybrid Cloud Multicloud Fantasy Island, has been added to reflect IBM’s cloud strategy de jour. Previous installments: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
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A Very Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud Hyperbole
I start more blog posts than I finish, due to no shortage of other distractions and at times a near-crippling inability to blog short. When IBM announced they were acquiring Red Hat in October 2018 for $34 billion, I embarked on a deeply intertwined discourse about the continued decline and fall of IBM, the two…
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Regulating Facebook: A Proposal
Internet God-Emperor and Roman autocrat fanboy Marcus Octavian Zuckerberg says he welcomes regulation of Facebook, albeit the “right” regulation. His regulatory enthusiasm has evolved over the last year from a vague and obligatory platitude to a more earnest and even a little desperate plea for government salvation. Zuckerberg’s increased comfort probably comes from both a…
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Nominating a Bot to the Federal Reserve Doesn’t Seem So Crazy Now Does It?
via Flickr I neglected to repost my quadrennial modest proposal to name a bot as chair of the Federal Reserve (instead of Bernanke or Yellen) during Jerome Powell’s nomination (I blame him). The idea is simple: Software Bot To Be Nominated Chairman of Federal Reserve System Cutting edge technology tapped to bring stability andconsistency to…
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Follow the CAPEX: Commercial Open Source vs. the Cloud
A mighty albeit abstruse debate rages: whether commercial open source companies can withstand and/or deserve to withstand the immense and feature-crushing gravitational pull of the public cloud black holes. While others far more versed (or at least self-interested) in the metaphysical intersection of open source ideals and cold, hard economics furiously deliberate the stakeholders’ putative…