Posts by spireite 783 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2015
I guess if he's got the contract, the the burn rate is 9bn people, rather than USD.
200m is not going to make a huge dent though in the expenditure.
I live in hope that this bubble and all associated with it get burned hugely, and it burns with the ferocity of the ill-fated Hindenburg
Broadcom / VMWare touting their memory tiering is nothing but a ruse at this point from a saving perspective. It's not a selling point, because any savings on memory purchases are more than eaten up by their screwing the pooch on licensing costs.
Only existing customers are likely to use it, and they probably are already.
It's not going to convince customers to stay when their now not-perpetual licences come up for forced renewal. They will be heading for the exits no matter what..
Probably saying Tierio on the way out.
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Those of us who have been round the block several times have seen this sort of thing before...
Before AI, it was 'natural language querying', which is a precursor in some ways, but have never seen a properly functional one. That was another damp squib, where the nuances tripped it up, amongst other things.
I've had a play with AI in querying a hefty database, and it needed so much hand holding.... worse was that when it was eventually coerced / coaxed into making sense, the DB was literally brought to its knees by the SQL generated.
I honestly can't see why you wouldn't consider containers useful.
Yes, they can be abused in overusage.
For example many years ago, the worlds lightest Python-based API was deployed in it's own 'lightweight' container. There was no need in that instance - boom boom.
But aside from that Containers have given much faster cadence, less worries about conflicts - Python I'm looking at you as a chief offender.
Substantially more pros than cons.
Kubernetes can go do quietly in a corner, it always seemed deployed 'just because', not 'because we need it'
To do the sensible thing isn't - to a council - sensible.
It requires the following,..
An admission the procurement and validation is inadequate (if it exists at all)..
An admission that the council is incompetent.
An admission that the IT staff within the council probably flagged it up very quickly as mismatching requirements
(unless said staff as contracted in by the supplier, in which case they keep shtum to be paid)
An admission their own pensions are at risk..
I've worked in two places where they standardised on Mac and it ain't for me.
Maybe I worked too long in Windows (Since 3.x days), but I couldn't get along with it - muscle memory too strong.
To alleviate it, I downloaded keyboard remappers, and even the simplest things like lack of seperate minimise and maximise on its windows irked me substantially.
Couldn't fault the hardware, but the OS ain't my cuppa. For the same reason, I'm Android and not Apple.
In fact, it has reached a point that I ask if the use Macs or not in interviews. If they force a Mac, then I'll turn the role down.
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