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I see the reason for dual stack but I would rather focus my efforts into securing one OS. If you buy into that, why not 3 or 4 different OSes?


It's an engineering tradeoff and market adaptation.

If you are a typical SaaS provider the complexity may be beyond your capabilities and budgets.. allegory to a local delivery business choosing to build a long term relationship with a single vehicle manufacturer and dealer.

If you are a high stakes service provider, you need to start thinking about how to get out from being controlled by a single vendor and market flux and plot your own destiny.. allegory to a national shipping carrier sourcing vehicles from multiple manufacturers and developing long term relationships with them to refine the platform.


3-4 would be great. What would you pick for the rest in this day and age though?


I'm still waiting for BeOS to make a come back


What is the situation with Haiku now?


They just released another "beta" not long ago. It seems like it's getting closer and closer to being daily driver ready.


Because tradeoffs and diminishing returns are a thing? For example having one backup is better than having no backups. Backups spread across earth, moon and mars would be better but probaboy not worth the cost.




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