Posts by MrGrumpy

Avaya hangs up on users with fewer than 200 SaaSy contact center seats

Avaya is toast

Avaya offerings have been crap and expensive for years. They will go the way of Nortel.

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Groundhog day

Well, it's Groundhog Day... again...

Has any Oracle project gone to plan?

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

Leisure suit

And Larry continues to laugh all the way to his new island.

Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PRTG Network Monitor

PE Scum

It would appear that our "subscription" is more than doubling in cost (it would be quadrupling they were not offering any discounts) and we would also be tied in to a 3 year contract.

I have been reading up on various forums and there are a lot of disgruntled customers looking to move away towards other technologies or simply continue to run the product without a support wrap.

Even on their own website the uplift was quoted at 6.7% not 200-400% as per some customer experiences.

Our previous budget for this product was €3,472.11 now they are asking for us to uplift this to €10,583.28, so a 305% uplift on current costs for the same product.

Turn/River Capital are looking to get a return on investment but copying Broadcom and upsetting the customer base is definitely not lasting long term strategy. Short term gain for longer term pain as people move away…

If they are unable to make this a more attractive offer, and we are pretty much forced to renew under protest / need to opt to run unsupported, then we will be looking to move to another product asap and that will be the end of our journey for PRTG.

PE firms can go shaft themselves.

Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign

What a thoroughly horrible cock womble.

Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle

Mess with them

I'm going download JavaSE, delete, download, delete, rinse and repeat, wait for my call, tell them to go and roger themselves.

Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial

HP Leadership

The clowns at the time should be doing the time.

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

Why?

Doesn't Oracle step in and sort these shitty mega projects out?

PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend the life of Windows 10

Extend Chromebook updates to 10 years

They will find other ways of shafting consumers.

Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment

Why

Does anyone use these massive outsourcing shysters? Cap Gem, Wipro, Fujitsu, all absolute garbage compared to building a solid in house team.

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

Windows 10 - Last version

Well that's what they said, now we've got to do a upgrade, for little benefit, when we have better things to do. FFS.

Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030

Carmack

Absolute ledge.

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

FUD

I didn't order FUD for lunch? Linux will never have the ecosystem around for serious enterprise users.

Education tech supplier RM smacked by UK schools closure

Garbage

I can't believe this stuff is still in use. Junk gear, crappy software.

Google swallows your Docs bill from Microsoft, pitches for user familiarity

Is Google Docs a real option for a large business?

Serious question?