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Warren Buffet and long time Microsoft exec Jeff Raikes email back and forth on how to value Microsoft as an investment.
Sriram Krishnan • Warren Buffet and Jeff Raikes email conversation
Building and Operating a Pretty Big Storage System Called S3
Dr Werner Vogels - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/allthingsdistributed.com

Neal Stephenson: “There are only two industries. This has always been true.” https://t.co/ARy4mcbeEb

like Hadoop on commodity server clusters, cloud technologies (private and public), and open-source software. The most notable
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
In other words, open-source protocols accelerate innovation by letting anyone build, so that with proper financial incentives for creators, they can quickly take the place of closed web2 protocols. That makes it hard for platforms to extract value, however, since open-source environments let anyone fork the platform and redeploy it with lower commi... See more