I found the most interesting part about this article how it kind of makes a direct line from UNIX’s place as a place for programmer system admins versus profess

I found the most interesting part about this article how it kind of makes a direct line from UNIX’s place as a place for programmer system admins versus professional services-driven servers. These people at Microsoft knew that they’d wipe the floor with the professional services folks by getting that professional services cost out of the picture by providing the small UNIX-like toolbox to do sysadmin work via automations. Of course, PowerShell being API-based instead of file-based was what came out of that. It’s interesting because what has survived has essentially been Windows and UNIX (via Linux being able to drop all the proprietary baggage of UNIX solutions). Everything else that was built to sell professional services is dead.