Posts by mtategcps

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

>What’s the opposite of “the gift that keeps giving”?

The recurring invoice?

Re: Performance

If I had to guess, a system was proposed that would have performed properly, but the council pushed back on the price, so the sales people revised the specs to make the sale.

IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak

CPak could also refer to IBM's Cloud Pak offerings which are pre-configured commodity hardware at Big Iron prices.

Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway

Re: Don't let that guy work without supervision

I've got a bad feeling about this...

BOFH: You can be replaced by a robot or get your carbon footprint below Big Dave's

"If you're not lucky, you'll just be a disembodied head on a screen."

Anyone else get Red Dwarf flashbacks?

Broadcom asserts VMware's strategy isn't working and it basically needs rescuing

Re: VMware is Legacy Tech

Mainstream support for the free Hyper-V 2019 ends in January.

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in

Re: It's about Oracle

>If this was mostly Oracle then why did the RedHat C-suites badmouth CIQ, the company behind Rocky Linux? Also, why did they call literally everyone "freeloaders" and "rebuilders"?

Because they can't badmouth Larry, he has better lawyers.

Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on

Re: To free or not to free

IMAO, Oracle is the target here. Rocky and Alma just got caught in the blast radius.

Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC

Everything old is new again.

I can assure you my consulting rates will be "more technical" when they come to me wanting to repatriate their server farm in a few years.

Remember those millions of fake net neutrality comments? Fallout continues

Re: That'll show them!

This is the same level of fine I expect the EPL will level against Manchester City for violating the league's financial fair play rules.

BT CEO orders staff: Back to the office or risk 'disciplinary action'

This is why we can't have nice things

Unfortunately, people like this are one of the reasons management is pulling everyone back to the office:

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/8-hours-remote-work-30-minutes/