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There's also software that was created to solve a specific problem that got misappropriated to do something else There used to be an ISP called pilot.net. It w
by notyourday 7y ago
There's also software that was created to solve a specific problem that got misappropriated to do something else
There used to be an ISP called pilot.net. It was a crappy ISP but to solve its ISP billing problem it wrote a billing system for telcos.
There was a company that tried competing with AWS selling hosting based on hyperthreads of CPUs. It wrote its own provisioning system because it did not want to pay for Virtuozzo. The company's name used to be dotCloud.
- otabdeveloper4 7y ago> There's also software that was created to solve a specific problem that got misappropriated to do something else Docker is a classic case. Docker must be the craziest, most over-engineered solution for packaging developer artifacts in the Universe.
- majewsky 7y agoIn the same way that Dropbox is the most over-engineered solution for file sharing, when all you need is an SVN-backed directory with curltmpfs. ;)
- oblio 7y agoWhat's the link between pilot.net and dotCloud? Did dotCloud use the billing system from pilot.net?