Cloud needs infrastructure
Metal under any EU cloud will be US made. More likely made in PRC.
Posts by DBJDBJ
20 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2011
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps
Saturday 26th July 2025 10:04 GMT
What C++
The less C++, the better it is. To me this seems like C++98 at best. Top level view seems to favour refactoring into feasible C++ subset 2025.
Also std:: lib seems to be used just for std::string , which is a shame.
Exceptions seems not to be used, which is good.
There are a few very good string and result types that could be used.
It is far from simple to arrive to C++ subset. Basically game devs know how to tame C++. There are a few very good foss repos to look into.
Just to be clear: I applaud the author of this lib. Strategy is good and MVP works.
Computing's big question for 2023: How many more questions can we endure?
Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck
Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping
Microsoft throws a bone to those unable to leave the past behind: .NET 5 support on the way for Visual Basic
Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech
Thursday 16th May 2019 08:37 GMT
SPOF, AMZN and MSFT
There are good ideas and practices in here but ... Calling Architects "Bar Raizers" might be a sign of the key single point of failure (SPOF).
I would like to think the AMZN CTO and "Bar Raizers" have developed a common vision and enterprise road map. But I am not hopeful.
It is perhaps interesting to compare the histories of AMZN and MSFT. Windows is Mount Everest of technical debt, but AMZN are building one that might grow larger.
You want how much?! Israel opts not to renew its Office 365 vows
Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet
NHS: Thanks for the free work, Linux nerds, now face our trademark cops
Adrift on a sea of data: Architecting for GDPR
Google's Grumpy code makes Python Go
Apple's new iPADS have begun the WAR that will OVERTURN the NETWORK WORLD
Roll up, roll up for the Reg Readers' Ball
Indirect proposition: Inside IBM UK software supremo's profit plan
500 MEELLION PCs still run Windows XP. How did we get here?
Thursday 10th October 2013 13:51 GMT
M$FT can solve this very quickly
M$FT should simply "give away" W8 licences for *free* in return for XP licences. Whoever owns XP licence key should be given W8 one for free.
Inside a single financial year M$FT will recoup the losses (and make even more profit) by accommodating hundreds of millions of newcomers with Office subscriptions.
Also. Suddenly W8 "Apps" will become a focus of millions of Apps developers.
Also. W8 newcomers will all of a sudden become aware of Windows Mobile devices (which soon will run the same OS)
How simple ?
A short, sharp tool kit to get you to the top in financial IT
Oracle and Dell forge worldwide server alliance
Wednesday 5th June 2013 08:51 GMT
nobody mentions Google here ?
in danger of sounding pompous , let us be clear : 1. NoSQL is very serious, 2: end of big expensive servers is few years away. Everything comes to its end, incuding Oracle and including Dell. Everybody will have a hard time trying to combat GOOG with its wast cloud, and with zero SQL inside and zero classical servers in it.
HP reinvents intranets as cloudy managed services
Wednesday 5th June 2013 08:50 GMT
Problem : Intranet == SharePoint
Hidden gem is (by general consensus) inability of SharePoint to deliver, AND by admition of HP, the greatest MSFT ally that ever was. HP Premise (hidden behind NGIW) is that SharePoint has failed as a platform for quick and easy enterprise apps delivering large ROI. And after spending last several years as an expert on SP, I can only but agree. For me NGIW is an effort to sell an solution to enterprises disillusioned with SharePoint.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
