I have commited to pay attention to it. If you look at this log it is hard to believe as my last post was almost two months ago. So I now take on the challenge of writing about my infrastructure passion everyday. I will stick with my conversations with Doc for a minute. Doc is the senior editor for Linux Journal, and, over the last 5 years, he and I talk on the phone about operating systems and infrastructure a couple of times a week.
Infrastructure is a complicated topic.
Over the years I have developed a thesis about why creating infrastructure is so hard. In a nutshell, infrastructure is so hard because the infrastructure vendor is constantly facing a dilemma of how to create shareholder value and how to create global ubiquity. These ultimate objectives cancel each other out. The classic paradox. If you succeed at one, you will fail at the other while at the same time, you must succeed at both to survive as a key player.