> Aol also invented a lot of devops-y tools years before stuff like chef was released [...] You mean before cfengine that started in 1993? > [...] then didn't

> Aol also invented a lot of devops-y tools years before stuff like chef was released [...] You mean before cfengine that started in 1993? > [...] then didn't open source any of them and slowly laid off all the teams working on them. Back then it was not a common practice for companies to publish their tools as open source. It's a very recent development. It cannot be held too much against AOL that they didn't. > [...] there wasn't any real buy in or understanding of modern development practices (Agile? What's that?) Again, time doesn't match. Agile manifesto was written in 2001. Your opinions would have much more substance if the timing of the events was right.