When IBM MQ 9.3 was released last month, as discussed here, it was notable (and noted) that this was just for distributed platforms and that news of the mainframe and the appliance would follow.
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When IBM MQ 9.3 was released last month, as discussed here, it was notable (and noted) that this was just for distributed platforms and that news of the mainframe and the appliance would follow.
Few people can claim the moniker of “pioneer” in building the internet as we know it. Rami Rahim, CEO of Juniper Networks, is one of them who had a front-row seat in the late 90s to the infant days of building the internet.
I don’t remember when, but sometime in the mid-90s, I was at a friend’s house in upstate New York and while browsing through the bookshelf came across an old worn-out copy of The Tao Te Ching by the Chinese philosopher and writer Lao-Tze.