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A Virtual Sense of Loss
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| So it was a strange feeling this New Year's
| Day to have to part with a server that has
| been important to me for the past four
| years. At 12:01 a.m. 2010, the data center
| operations staff of The Planet reclaimed a
| Linux box that I had been using to run my
| company's Web site and wiki. This
| reclamation ended an important chapter of my
| life.
|
| The staff that takes the box off the rack
| will never know how it hosted a wiki that
| helped write more than 10 books, and that
| hundreds of people used the processor,
| memory and disk during the writing process.
| The people who strip this server down for
| parts won't have any idea that the Web sites
| powered by this server took my company,
| Evolved Media, through several stages of
| evolution.
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/04/virtual-server-farewell-technology-cio-network-woods.html
System z: Dinosaur or Phoenix?
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| But here's something strange: Just before
| Christmas IBM announced Korea's largest
| credit card company, BC Card, had decided to
| go with an IBM System z mainframe to support
| its payment system, rather than alternative
| products from HP and Oracle. "We chose
| System z for its continuous operation,
| service quality made available through IBM's
| mainframe software solutions and economic
| returns for the years ahead," Jeongkyu Lee,
| BC Card's Chief Information Officer, is
| quoted as saying.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3856646/Systems-z-Dinosaur-or-Phoenix.htm
Related:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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