… The end result will, in theory, look a lot like the Ethernet ecosystem – vendors and other stakeholders working together on a spec then building compatible products while each tries to make their products stand out. …
… The association also wants funding to develop local alternatives for key components such as memory and processors, alongside stricter environmental sustainability requirements. …
… The cull is global: in the US, only 19 providers are said to remain from a pool of thousands. “This isn't partner management, it's market control,” one CSP told us in January. “A forced consolidation that sidelines long-standing European partners in favor of a much narrower and more limiting ecosys… …
… The Arch Linux ecosystem is quite broad, and some parts are not happy. …
… "If you have people developing using your technologies and approaches and IP, they're more likely to migrate up and stay in your ecosystem," he said. …
… "It's all about having alternatives," explains Carrez, "The leverage is there if there is only one provider, and sometimes just having the ability to switch from one to another is enough. …
… Rather than relying on a small number of global trust anchors, or a sprawling ecosystem of over a thousand certificate authorities that all must be trusted simultaneously, SCION lets countries, regions, or organizations define their own local trust roots. …
… It has an OS that does not suck, an ecosystem that is coherent and, at last, affordable, and it has not gone insane pushing products that actively repel customers. …