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View this on the web In this episode: who comes up the ApacheCon booths, a seemingly coordinated conversation about tech bubbles, and “how to eat.” The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It’s a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side and to hear how organizations are using Cloud Foundry to become Software Defined Businesses. Register now with the discount code COTE and get 25%, which will bring the price down from $250 to about $187.

Tim Bray explores why programmers so often start sentences Ed with “So…” On “so”

I wasn’t told this was an option: “we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in the bathtub.” The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness

More on HP’s cloud re-positioning: “HP is not leaving the public cloud market,“ said HP in a statement to CRN that mirrors a statement given earlier this week to VentureBeat. “We run the largest OpenStack technology-based public cloud out there. This has to do with not competing head-to-head with the big public cloud players.” They’re going “enterprise” that is. And if you pay attention to analyst predictions and their surveys of what companies say they want to buy (mostly private and “hybrid cloud”), that’s likely OK.

I think SUSE is the gem in that crown, at least last time I heard their y/y momentum numbers. Micro Focus guillotine will fall more frequently on Novell necks • The Channel - The Channel

Here’s the tiny quote: “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us,” said Bill Hilf, the head of HP’s cloud business. “It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head.” I feel like there’s a lot of nuance to add that’s missing. However, analysts seem to think this direction is pretty correct. If there is a particularly weak spot for HP, it is in better enabling companies to write their own software applications, an increasingly crucial part of corporate tech where HP does not have much of a track record.

Java and JavaScript very popular. Coupled with the Eclipse community survey and the RedMonk amalgamation surveys, you’d get a good view of things. “Over 26k developers from 157 countries answered 45 questions.” Stack Overflow Survey 2015: Technologies Used, Loved, Disliked or Wanted

I find your lack of documentation disturbing. Lean Documentation, some tips

Global cloud and data center-delivered managed network services doubled in size from $1,384 million in 2009 to $2,606 million in 2015, according to a report from Statista, a New York City research firm. While those seem like impressive growth numbers, the MSP Alliance has estimated managed services revenue generated by cloud and managed service providers (MSPs) in North America during 2014 equaled $154 billion. In addition, 451 Research predicts that the value of managed services from cloud service providers will grow from $17 billion in 2014 to $43 billion in 2018.

View this on the web There’s few links today, just some pointers to now published material that I’ve alluded to recently, and some moaning on needing to be a better team-player. Follow-upWe got up to 100 subscribers, so good job there, y’all ;) As several people wrote, the word I was looking for in that discussion of lower case letters is “semiotics”, the study of symbols. The podcast I excerpted from on the operational needs of cloud platforms (and people who don’t capitalize words) is now up.