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This comment is spot on: > I was a sysadmin through the tail end of the Microsoft desktop dominance. I'm glad that MS acted that way. It forever cemented in th

This comment is spot on: > I was a sysadmin through the tail end of the Microsoft desktop dominance. I'm glad that MS acted that way. It forever cemented in the minds of IT the danger of single vendor lock-in. [...] MS's bad behavior in the 90s and early 2000's bought us 50 to 100 years of lessons on what we need to avoid in the technology space.

KozmoNau7 9y ago
And yet people are still all too willing to throw all their eggs into one basket, with Apple or Google.
- bennyelv 9y ago
  In my anecdotal experience, consumers yes, businesses less so.
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Large businesses maybe; small and medium ones are more like consumers in this regard.
  - bni 9y ago
    Not my experience at all, businesses select Either AWS, Azure or Google cloud, today. Previously it was .NET/IIS or Java with vendor app server.
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- Slansitartop 9y ago
  And businesses with Amazon.
skrebbel 9y ago
I think he's very optimistic about the collective memory of tech people. I don't know enough about sysadmin work but programmers reinvent the same techniques every 10 years.