Tim O’Rielly wrote an excellent piece about the newfound interest in well-run operations for Microsoft and other companies hoping to be a part of the Web 2.0 revolution. I think this is a rich reward for systems administrators and operators, two professions of vital importance that seemed very underappreciated (some might say marginalized) as of late.

One of the more interesting parts of the article discussed the value of integration:

Internet-scale applications are pushing the envelope on operational competence, but enterprise-class applications will follow. And here, Microsoft has a key advantage over open source, because the Windows Live team and the Windows Server and tools team work far more closely together than open source projects work with companies like Yahoo!, Amazon, or Google.

If this vision is true then I don’t think it bodes well for companies that have outsourced almost all of their technical operations.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 20th, 2006 at 4:54 pm and is filed under In the News, People, Practices. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.