Smart Ass
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Top Ten Reactions to Latest IBM “Billion Dollar” Inanity
Here it is, as irresistible as a prime time car chase that ends with a celebrity stuck in a well is to CNN: Last year, it [IBM] invested nearly $1 billion to leverage the Cloud Foundry platform to develop the Bluemix platform-as-a-service as an implementation of its Open Cloud Architecture.” As a farewell (with apologies)…
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, Not the Copywriter
I have given this speech at least three times this month so it is time to commit it to permalink: You don’t get to proclaim your product is beautiful. Beauty is subjective. If your labor of love really is beautiful, people will notice and may even say so (feel free to quote the hell out…
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Open Season: A Short Industrial Drama
Cloud Foundry had a pretty good week with endorsements from Baidu and IBM. Both relationships were developed after I left VMware so what follows is purely speculation on my part. But some companies have a tough time getting over their history and playbooks, so it is easy to imagine how things went down. Warning: this…