Links for 04-15-2011

• Why customer needs don’t always matter — On Product Management - "Product Management is not about satisfying customer needs and wants. Product Management is about ensuring business goals are met and business success delivered."
• CentOS 5.6 Finally Arrives: Is It Suitable for Business Use? | Linux Magazine - "The other half of “enterprise-class” is that updates arrive in a timely fashion, which is notably false for the 5.x series. If I understand correctly, there have been a handful of updates prior to the release of CentOS 5.6 for the 5.x series — but nothing else. So, if you consider timely updates a requirement for “enterprise-class,” we can count CentOS out now."
• Build Your Own NASA Apollo Landing Computer (no kidding) - Space & Sci-Fi Blog - Galaxiki, the Sci-Fi Galaxy that anyone can edit
• Coté's People Over Process » VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass - "The most critical thing for VMWare to do is to let this “open is best” philosophy play out in their application development strategy. VMWare’s current fortunes were built on distinctly not that philosophy and it’d be easy for the kernel geniuses who must hold much of the corporate power to derail the appdev strategy, which is a much different beast than virtualization and other business models closer to the metal than the glass."