Posts by adamr001

Let's take a look at Oracle's love and hate relationship with open source software

"Sun's hardware portfolio is no longer available..."

They might have killed off some hardware (RIP Sun Ray), but you can still get servers and storage from Oracle.

Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?

IBM was selling a derivative of Vault and is behind OpenBao so curious to see what happens with that.

1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year

There are many virtualization options, but what network virtualization options do any of those support? As far as I know, none of them have anything that comes close to NSX.

Side note, Red Hat Virtualization is basically dead and "replaced" by OpenShift Virtualization.

Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it

Re: Automation needed

But if they told you how to do it, why would you pay them $$$ for the support contract?

Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password

Another workaround

I don't have a machine to test this on myself, but I heard changing root's shell to /usr/bin/false is another valid workaround.

VMware open sources VR overlay for vSphere

I would think it is older than 1997. The GUI looks like either Windows 3.x or Windows NT 3.x.

Solaris update plan is real, but future looks cloudy by design

Re: Sparc Emulator?

Transitive is what powered the Rosetta feature in Mac OS X to let PowerPC apps run on x86. Worked pretty well and was fast as far as I remember.

Oracle's systems boss bails amid deafening silence over Solaris fate

The are killing off more than just the FS1

They also recently killed off the Oracle Virtual Networking (former Xsigo) product. It is listed as EOL on the customer portal and they scrubbed all references to the product with the exception of a small mention on the Private Cloud Appliance product page (which isn't EOL).

They also scrubbed all references to their upcomming EDR InfiniBand fabric that was covered here. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/23/oracle_emits_carrier_enterprise_kit_at_mobile_world_congress/

Dell EMC 'backs' Huawei open-source management disrupter

Re: XKCD 927

Pretty much. Isn't this the same thing SMI-S is supposed to accomplish?