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Cloud computing, which boils down to renting server space and software off premises, has become a massive growth target. Every large Internet enterprise is backing the public cloud and hoping to turn hosting your projects into a long term revenue stream. From a business perspective this makes perfect sense. Every CEO dreams of a bottomless pit of revenue pouring into their coffers, and in this age of information, those wannabe terabyte landlords are in a race to build the swankiest file hosting apartments. The cloud: What's not to love?

One of the best advantages of the cloud is that it is available anywhere there is an Internet connection, and for basic Angry Birds level usage the cloud is great. But at enterprise level, while the cloud is "making it rain" for some people, it is also getting a lot of others wet, and wet technology does not work!

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Technology is as close to anarchy as you will get in this hyper-regulated world. There are no borders, no traditions, there is no guaranteed pension, and it keeps getting better and bringing huge benefits to society. From a big picture perspective this is a great thing. Cheaper phones, better computers, instant world wide access to information, multiple news sources, shopping from the comfort of your couch, and a massive potential marketplace if you decide to go after a particular industry to try change the world.

From a personal perspective though this means that someone is out to get you. As you sleep there is a product developer somewhere trying to destroy your business model and remove you from the equation. There is no bullet proof way to prevent this but it pays to keep yourself educated about technology and up-to-date in your application of it. Technology is a manifestation of the human mind, and the only way to keep up is to sharpen your mind and your skills.

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Distributed version control systems are not exactly new. They have been around for the last 10 years, but they haven't yet penetrated Enterprise where Subversion and CVS still hold sway. There are some conceptual reasons for this. Mostly the concept of control, swiftly following by the concept of money.

Open source distributed systems are free, which flies in the face of enterprise profit making, and that has made them suspicious to businesses who need dedicated support, funded roadmaps, corporate regulatory compliance, and the fact that they are mostly coded by guys who take a certain pleasure in making gifs that paint the suit wearing procurement manager as slightly less than intelligent.

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In our quest to create the world's greatest development suite we think long and hard about how to make the best tools, offering the greatest value, with the least complexity possible, to our users. But we are all products of our environment, and our tools too are products of theirs. So, in an effort to support them, we investigated the best way to create the perfect environment for our tools, which in turn creates the best environment for our users. After taking that step back and analysing the contenders, one solution stood out above all others: Nix Package Manager.

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Society is driven by wants. The marketplace is driven by wants. Design is driven by wants. You are driven by wants. Each and every one of these wants creates a rich dependancy of needs, and because every want can only be satisfied if those underlying needs are met, every want can be broken down into a series of achievable steps.
At RhodeCode we want to create the best development tools in the world, and for us this generates an almost endless to-do list of needs that must be satisfied.

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