Posts by ColinJ

Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales

Re: Hardware on the Accounts

It maybe that the company didn't want to assume accountability for the choice of hardware or any issue with reliability etc.

A year after Logitech screwed over Harmony users, it, um, screws over Harmony users: Device API killed off

Re: The Only Thing...

the problem with squeezebox was this it was cheap, well supported by online community, could integrate seamlessly with existing hi-fi and reliable = no revenue stream, unlike Sonos.

Don't read this, Oracle... It's the rise of the open-source data strategies

Adobe talking about ripping off customers that's rich!

Much of the points are good, although there is a lack of real technical understanding of why DB platforms are used.

The Open source RDBMS are limited by both non-functional (think security and HA/DR) and functional features (think temporal tables, functions, developer options). However for basic websites or "DIGITAL" as it is known now rather than a complex transactional application Open source is often a good fit.

I don't think migration from RDBMS to a document, graph or other type of DB (e.g. MongoDB) is one that is usually taken, maybe for some functionality but this is a major re-platform of the application and application codebase (think in terms of millions of ££ of dev effrot)

Adobe talking about ripping off customers that's rich!

Micro Focus shares take bath after results report

mergers seem stale

all the companies they bought seem well stale, who buys Borland, Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell and Serena Software anymore?

or am I missing something?

Toss your day job. Start a backup company. Sorted

Barracuda in the cloud - not great

deployed their WAF in AWS, a lot harder than it should have been and support was dismal. Still seem set up assuming an on-prem deployment. AWS WAF wasn't out then!

Their CEO's view on the cloud hasn't filtered down to their product and support teams yet!

'Exploding e-cig cost me 7 teeth, burned my face – and broke my sink!'

Re: Stored Energy

guess your are not the tolerant type then.

I hope you don't drive a car or travel in planes, I should not have to breath in the fumes resulting in your selfish form of travel...

First people complain about passive smoking, now passive vaping even though there are no negative health effects and the level of nicotine exhaled is miniscule.

I guess some people like to complain.

Trainline.com dumps Oracle and Microsoft, gulps AWS Kool-Aid

can't believe they had all your IT OUTSOURCED to Cap Gemini - What did the company do before as their whole business is development and operation of a web site?

Private clouds kinda suck, you know?

Re: Is this not relabelling?

I think if you see VMWare vSphere (shared infra, redundancy, optimization, efficiency) a la enterpirse infra 5 years ago and compare to Amazon today (auto-scaling, software defined networking, utility computing, charge-back etc) then a true Private cloud should be in the middle of this.