IT Essentials: Making plans for sovereignty

Too many eggs in too few cloud baskets?

John Leonard
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IT Essentials: Making plans for sovereignty
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IT Essentials: Making plans for sovereignty

'No-one ever got fired for buying IBM,' the saying went. Choose the default and all will be fine.

In a similar vein, as a chemistry graduate in the 80s I was assured it was pretty much impossible to go wrong if you got in on the bottom rung at ICI. And little earlier, in XTC's classic Making...

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