Take a look at the strategy of treating Linux instances as managed objects. Previous generations of management technologies all suffer from the problems of excessive complexity, heavyweight implementations, too fine-grained an approach, and so on. In effect, the area of Linux systems management infrastructure is wide open for a root and branch review.
The article has been up for roughly a whole day, and there isn’t a post saying “Linux isn’t an OS! It’s GNU/Linux!” yet. o.o
EDIT: Sorry, not roughly a whole day. I forgot to take into account the difference between timezones.
Edited 2008-08-04 23:22 UTC