First they ignore you,

Then they laugh at you,

Then they fight you,

Then you win

Then local datacenters move to the cloud

Then you don’t keep up with Amazon

Then you exit to IBM

Then you get used to shovel IBM garbage onto customers

Then you become an irrelevant footnote like vmware and Sun.

Early 2000s red hat was wild and I was glad to be there. I’m still the ‘mikem’ in /etc/sudoers in RHEL and Amazon Linu.