On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:54:02PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
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> coraid has an interesting history.
> https://www.information-age.com/silicon-valley-can-kill-business-man-scolded-machine-6832/
This is another illustration of "The Mythical Man-Month".
I still think there is place for a small, understandable system,
providing too features that other systems try not to master, but to
add to a pile of things that is already too huge---look at the
problems and the amount of code appearing now on the kernel side for
Unices for KMSDRM (already more or less considered a dead end, because
the graphical terminal is almost anecdoctical for the GPU).
How could such OSes be a correct fundation for reliable data
storage?---and even for something else in fact.
I don't know what is the trend in U.S., but in France, as usual, "big"
companies get to "cloud" like sheeps, not for any technical reason
but because it was fashionable and this gained managers photos in
magazines for doing so.
And they had been selling their data centers, firing their staff and so
on and promising costs cuts and incredible efficiency.
Neither costs reduction, nor security or efficiency have been
achieved.
And they are now silently trying to restore data centers of their own,
trying to get back what they, in fact, paid to give.
Because of war everything will collapse and the current insane beasts:
the software dinosaurs, will not survive.
I don't know if black holes do exist but I'm convinced that there are
already, out there, software implementations of black holes: things
that will collapse under their own weight.
There is still a chance for Plan9 based/like systems.
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