a) Zero cost deployment. Create some minimal shell version of windows which will allow me to basically compile a few applications into an OS image that I can de

a) Zero cost deployment. Create some minimal shell version of windows which will allow me to basically compile a few applications into an OS image that I can deploy on actual hardware machines / virtual servers. b) Have open source software available via a package manager which takes care of dependency resolution. One click install of apache , python etc. c) Embrace popular languages like python/ruby. d) Learn to obsolete old stuff strategically.