Daily Archives: 2022-02-25

Article note: Man, we're only like 10 years from "Never use your real name on the Internet" to threatening "The government mandates you supply your legal name to the ad-tech companies who have taken over the Internet"

Article note: Getting out of Sparc makes sense, no one gives a shit about commercial Unix anymore, Oracle has poisoned the waters around Sparc, and Fujitsu has seriously badass AArch64 designs that can take over in the remaining markets. The mainframes though? That's an ...odd... move. There doesn't seem to be a ton of overlap between the "Mainframe customers" (serous mainframes, the GS21 family are basically modernized Amdhal ESA/390 compatible designs) and "Customers who will migrate to a new, small cloud provider."