* Posts by aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

11 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Feb 2016

Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

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VMWare User Group "advantage" licensing is next on the chopping block!!!!!

NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability

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Re: Interesting design

I don`t think less Lift is a good idea in airplanes....

Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009

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CP/M, Now where did I hear that before??? Hope they have extra floppies on board...

Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop

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Re: Pricing

It works in that you have to buy 120K worth of s/w to configure them and you get the switches free. Don`t forget the yearly maint. charges!!!!

LzLabs kills Swisscom’s mainframes – but it's not the work of a vicious BOFH: All the apps are now living on cloud nine

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Re: mainframe switch

"..............offering compare to similar from microfocus or dxc?"

Knowing both MF and DXC, lzlabs is probably lights years ahead and a tenth of the cost..

Hi! It looks like you're working on a marketing strategy for a product nowhere near release! Would you like help?

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Re: Shoot the messenger

" Any firm that behaves like that (and there are more than a few) deserves to go down in a ball of flame"

But ALL software firms behave like that!!!

Dell EMC better watch out, HPE better not frown, Chinese server sales are talk of the town

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"Inspur, Huawei and Lenovo collectively shipped more servers this year...."

yeah but probably to Chinese customers since government forces them to buy Chinese...

Cisco Webex meltdown caused by script that nuked its host VMs

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AI????? hahahaha...

Disk firmware can kill a whole cluster how exactly? Cisco explains

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Re: Who else?

Correct... All these Big Companies buy normal enterprise ssd/sas disks BUT decide to modify the firmware so YOU cannot go out and buy them off the shelf at half the price..... Thanks Cisco, HPE and IBM and others...

Russia claims it repelled home-grown drone swarm in Syria

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"Russia claims..." yeah right and we believe everything the Russians tell us....

Got Oracle? Got VMware? Going cloud? You could be stung for huge licensing fees

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Re: It might just be the price of doing business with Oracle

Or better yet, get rid of Oracle on your Infra`s...