The Difference Between a Standard and a Preferred Vendor
Recently, I attended a customer workshop where the customer declared that they standardized on x86, VMware and Linux.
That got me and my colleague thinking about what standardization really means and whether that actually makes sense.
The workshop was actually about defining a PaaS platform for the customer, and early in the process they just said: Fine, but it’s gonna be x86, VMware and Linux, because that’s our standard. WTF?