Posts by David in NL Canada

The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter?

Missed opportunity... this time.

A bit of fun, but please look up the infamous "dickieberg" that appeared in Newfoundland, Canada a couple of years ago.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/oddly-shaped-iceberg-nl-1.6825578

AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside

Its not about the licenses being used....

For those not aware of how Broadcom is changing things...

VMware has been sold in many different bundles over the years... many of these being focused on the "tablestakes" of the VMware ESXi hypervisor and the management front-end "vCenter". Broadcom has taken a wild leap forward in how they have chosen to bundle their products. For "Large Enterprise Customers" like AT&T I would presume, the only licenses available include full product sets that many customers have NEVER used or wanted to use - NSX Network Virtualization, vSAN virtual storage array configuration capability, and even the (more often) common vRealize suite (not called VMware Aria). These are not the only products, but just some of them.

Many of the customer I deal with are choosing alternatives and being held hostage by Broadcom, who have typically measured the "Pain" that customers would have to undergo, and simply priced their product a few dollars short of the cost of migration - something that has seen anywhere from a 4x to a 10x price increase depending on customer.

Broadcom is predatory in their licensing practices, in my opinion, and I do hope some of the organizations big enough to do so, to look to courts to place some fairness in licensing.

All that being said - now is the time I have been looking at Proxmox and thinking that it would only take a generation or 2 of updates to make it more prepared for "primetime" for smaller enterprises.

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

Hardware Maybe?

You think it might have something to do with the fact that sooooo much in use hardware isn't officially supported? I am using 11 on one of my machines (only machine that will run it) and it is fine, in my experience.... but they have 20% of my home's PCs, 80% are Win 10. That dial isnt moving until I replace the other 4 pieces of hardware, and I measure that process in years - not months.

Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'

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I am NOT affiliated in any way and will not profit if you purchase... but these stories do have real people behind them! :)