Posts by John1918

VMware security advisories now behind bureaucratic Broadcom barricade

Time To Boost "Userbase" Numbers?

I've gotten a glut of emails from Broadcom about migrating to their portal, which I imagine will be used to show just how great of an idea the acquisition was due to "increased number of active broadcom account registrations".

Jokes on them, our partner vendor is getting hit with requests for alternatives, as they admitted when they were not at all surprised by my request.

Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last

Re: Costs

We've checked the costs a few times over the past years and every time it has been cheaper to run things on-prem.

I blame the steep federal discounts for on-prem and much less for online.

Eat my shorts, watchdog tells every city mayor in the US – FCC approves $2bn 5G telco windfall

Is anyone surprised?

If you give complete control of regulation of an industry to stooges of that industry, generally things don't go great for people that aren't making money off of it.

Hello bevy of lawsuits.

JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal

I can scarcely imagine the number of lobbyists that appeared overnight when Oracle, Microsoft and the rest realized the amount of profit at stake.

When 'Saving The Internet' means 'Saving Crony Capitalism'

Re: You get what you pay for

I wanted to post a thoughtful comment on this post, I really did, but then I read.

"could reduce the rate my personal costs increase"

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

'My dream job at Oracle left me homeless!' – A techie's relocation horror tale

Oracle isn't "too big to fail", it is "too big to care".

Especially at large established companies, you really need to expect them to treat you like an easily discarded wheel.