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Linux Has Come of Age .. Now, It Is Time To Take The World

An interesting article on not only Linux but OpenSource TechCrunch Article: RedHat CEO at Linuxcon – I have no idea what’s next

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Google’s software stack obsolete

Interesting article. I am not sure about Google’s but this is true for most companies, especially when they are large companies with large investments in their propietary systems. It does take a concerted effort in keeping things evolving. In general … Continue reading

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iPad, GarageBand and The Fabian Schonholz Experience

Today was an interesting day. While I have a bunch of guitars, I decided to pull out my oldest guitar, the one I have had for 28 years. Do not ask why. Also, I decided to record something using the … Continue reading

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An Answer That Even An Single Cell Organism Can Understand

By Agustin M Rela Translated by Fabian Schonholz I hired Ramiro Rela back in late 2002 or early 2003. The reality is that I did not want to hire him because he did not have the relevant experience I was … Continue reading

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From my iPhone

Wow…can you believe it. An iPhone app to write on my blog. This is fantastic and believe it or not, this post is being written on my iPhone. The aspect I will need to figure out is workflow. Normally after … Continue reading

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A Hybrid Solution

In an early blog posts, Building Scalable Web Systems, I discussed very high level some of the needed premises and basis to architecting scalable systems. What the post did not deal with is insurance and Downtime. What is the point … Continue reading

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Ducks, Rows, Lines And Business Processes

Image courtesy of rengawman.wordpress.com I like my ducks in a row. Oh yes .. I do indeed. Every time my ducks get out of alignment I react, to some extent, poorly. This is particularly true as I help build companies … Continue reading

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The End Of Progress

NOTE: In order to make the best read of this post – but you do not have to – you can read The Last Question, by Asimov (at https://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm) and one of my previous posts called Downtime (at http://www.fabianschonholz.com/2008/01/06/downtime) — … Continue reading

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The Cost Of A Startup

Once a month, on the second Friday of most months, a CTO networking group that I belong to meets. Each meeting starts with a speaker – speaker in the loose term because it is not a fixed format – and … Continue reading

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Downtime

A couple of weeks ago there was a blog post at TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com) regarding web sites experiencing downtime as well as infrastructure companies experiencing failures in their operations. Obviously, the first take was on the revenue loss that each one … Continue reading

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