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18th November 2007 - Link Blog

Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.

Posted 18th November 2007 at 12:30 am

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