Cloud chronicles
How open-source software and cloud computing have set up the IT industry for a once-in-a-generation battle
AS BOSSES go, Linus Torvalds and Andy Jassy couldn’t be more different. Mr Torvalds works, often in his bathrobe, out of his home in Portland, Oregon. He leads an army of volunteer developers whose software can be had for nothing. The office of Mr Jassy, who usually sports business casual, is in a tower in Seattle. His employees operate dozens of huge data centres around the world and work to create new online services that his firm can charge for.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Cloud chronicles”
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