Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Dark Star Is Born

January 19, 2009 – 10:43 pm

With Cisco’s announcement that the company is getting into the server business (news here), it is easily seen that all infrastructure businesses are collapsing into vertically integrated entities. This, in my opinion, is especially true/possible in the cloud. Why not offer all the primitives: compute, networking, storage? Why not offer cloud management software? Why offer [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Industry | Comments (1)

The new library

January 17, 2009 – 12:28 am

Time was you did systems and networking work, you had The Library. Programming Perl , sendmail , DNS and Bind , TCP/IP Illustrated , UNIX System Administration Handbook . These books documented the core knowledge to operate effectively in our industry. You’d add others as your level of badassery increased, perhaps Mastering Regular Expressions , [...]

By jason | Posted in General, Industry | Comments (3)

Joyent Acquires Reasonably Smart

January 14, 2009 – 4:03 pm

I’m very excited to announce that Joyent has acquired the Montreal-based Reasonably Smart platform. James Duncan and Bryan Bogensberger, founders of the company and platform, have joined Joyent. This acquisition comes at an important point in time for Joyent. We’ve just finished our best year, ever. Revenue doubled in 2008 from 2007 even as the [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (10)
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