welcome to the real world. go read a history book, this is exactly how things happened. Look at Britain and France. Mortal enemies for centuries, but as soon as Prussia/Germany rose to power they are now the best of friends. and Britain had a falling out with Prussia in the mid 1800's after centuries of being allies against France.
Same with Russia. Allies in the wars against Napoleon but come the mid 1800's Britain goes to war against Russia because they expand in the Crimea
Apple has a fully licensed MS Exchange client on 50 million or so iphones and ipods Snow Leapard has a fully licensed MS Exchange 2007 client MS Office for Mac will have Outlook in the next version Rumors are Bing is going to displace Google as the default search engine on the iphone Apple is big in Open Source since OS X is based on some version of BSD. FreeBSD I think Microsoft doesn't seem to want to compete in the mobile space or with MP3 players. the Zune was a total waste of great hardware Apple doesn't seem to want to compete in the Enterprise Software market where MS likes to be these days
And Google with their vision of the cloud is the common enemy to Apple and Microsoft's fat client strategy
if i called Google support during the incident, would i have been told the truth. Or would they have told me that everything is fine and to check my end
aren't there any people in the data center to tell them that yes there has been a power outage, so and so machines are affected, etc? sounds like all they have is remote monitoring and if something happens than someone has to drive to the location to see what's wrong
we run MS Terminal Services which is Citrix lite and the ratio is 10 people per server or so. I think the reason they run it is we serve big customers and they don't want to pay for network bandwidth to small offices to run local apps. but we don't run it with dumb terminals on the desktop. if the TS server crashed people would just run apps on the desktop.
if you run the dumb terminal deal it's still going to be way more expensive than buying and supporting desktops. Windows 7 works fine on 5 year old hardware. why spend hundreds of thousands of $$$ on licenses and hardware when there is 10% unemployment. if it doesn't turn out well, you may be out of a job
i use a lot of Google services and it's becoming annoying.
Gmail seems to take forever doing simple things like deleting emails. 10 seconds to delete 100 emails is way too long. Google Reader has this annoying habit that you can't rename folders and you can't customize the size of the different areas of the screen. Google Wave other than sucking real bad is slow. and it's a RAM hog. i've had Chrome at 600MB of RAM just on Google Wave. Google Voice doesn't seem to have a purpose. why would i use it to call people when my iphone does it just fine and a lot faster? Google Buzz also sucks. it only pulls tweets once or twice a day and you can't send anything.
i missed the mainframe era but some of these things seem just like mainframes are back. you get your bit of computing time and thank the computing gods for the privilege. Google reminds of me of what i read here years ago. a lot of talented tech people think of a cool idea and get it to version.8 or.9 and let the less talented people finish off the details while they go on to the next cool idea. same with Google. they come out with something and even for all of Apple's and Microsoft's buggy software, it's a lot more polished than Google's crap. And a lot of things Google does are done a lot easier and faster with a nice fat client and a server component.
Look at Twitter as an example. The third party clients are awesome compared to the website. Tweetdeck is better than wave or Buzz. in fact i'm using Twitter a lot more for work than Google. A lot of DBA's on Twitter and they will answer a lot of questions and there is the social component of it
i think i read that Google Apps will cost you $50 per user per year. that's about the cost of MS Exchange and Office when amortized over 5 years. why change? than you have SOX issues like backups and having backups of data from years ago available to you
i calculated the cost of a 64GB 8 core server 24x7 at EC2 and it came out to something like $6000 a year. This will run you $10,000 to $13,000 total for a HP PRoliant DL 380 G5.
it's very simple. you buy a server onsite you can use regular hard drives, etc. Amazon and the other cloud providers have to buy all kinds of expensive SAN's and redundancy. In practice they have to buy two servers to let you host your one server that you will buy normal hard drives for.
then there are upgrades. our server purchases this year will replace perfectly working servers that will go to a DR site. it's going to be quick for us. For Amazon once they buy the hardware it may be hard to add new architecture servers to existing clusters. we run VMWare and i've seen the guys cry because it can be finicky about having different models of servers in the same cluster.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have always said that they knew Windows and Office won't last forever. in the last 10 years they expanded into video games, business software, database servers, general IT servers for IT management, etc.The "cloud" is just a buzzword. few months ago i was reading some article about how someone was deploying servers for some internal project. and the article said they were building out a private cloud.
most of the cloud nonsense is for small businesses. i've helped a few build infrastructure and it's a waste of money buying servers, Windows Server licenses, etc. easier and cheaper to outsource it to Azure, Google or someone else.
for larger businesses hardware is so cheap that it doesn't make sense. We're about to buy a few $15,000 servers when the new Intel CPU's come out. 2 6 core CPU's, 72GB of RAM, 500GB to 1TB of hard drive space, all kinds of monitoring capability, etc for $15,000 each.
i was talking to an IT sales person the other day and he didn't even try to sell an hardware to us. he kept on pushing services. servers are a commodity made in China by little kids. just like ipods. I guess services is the next frontier to try to squeeze some profits
this is a cell phone. in the USA when your 2 year contract is up you junk it and buy a new one. you don't treasure it like a Mac like the crazy people on MacRumors do
if it's for using private API's, avoiding the MS bad publicity. everyone worked around MS bugs and Microsoft couldn't make needed changes in their OS's due to developers complaining it was going to cause them to write code. in Vista they had to pull a new anti-virus API because of this.
Apple is just forcing everyone to follow the rules in the developer agreement. last thing Apple wants is to release an iPhone OS update and to have thousands of apps fail due to private API use and then all the devs will complain how it's Apple's fault
hardware is dirt cheap and getting cheaper. you can buy a powerful server for cheap as well. but after you buy the Citrix or whatever licenses, a few more servers for redundancy, a ton of storage at enterprise prices, the enterprise hardware support, increase network bandwidth etc the savings vanish and it's cheaper to just buy regular desktop machines.
same thing with EC2. by the time you put in the network hardware and new circuits and pay Amazon for 24x7 instances it's cheaper to just buy desktops. i'm typing this on a 5 year old HP that runs windows 7 just fine.
i bet all this cloud nonsense is enterprise hardware companies trying to push higher margin products and no real trend that anyone is doing. the numbers just don't work out
i remember 10 years ago i had to move about 300 people's data from a Novell file server to a Windows NT server. we divided the task between myself and a UNIX/Novell admin. It took me 3 hours using all the mouse/keyboard and GUI shortcuts i knew. This guy spent 3 days writing a script that ran for 30 minutes to copy the data.
i still deal with UNIX people sometimes and they want to write scripts for the simplest things that Windows will let you do in a GUI in seconds
Intel is going to release products based on their 25nm manufacturing process in 4Q. Toshiba just doubled their flash density as well and products will start shipping soon. Next few years expect to see a huge explosion in SSD. Just like the late 1990's for hard drives
if they do the normal "private equity" deal what is going to happen is they will buy the company and then "lend" it money from another one of their legal entities along with declaring special dividends. that cash is going to leave Novell and go into the hedge fund. a lot of people will be fired to free up cash that will go to the hedge fund. Once the IPO market becomes better they will sell the company to someone else or if Novell goes belly up they will write it off for the tax benefits.
i just had a chat with a sales rep and the big thing to sell this year is services. everyone is trying to sell services. probably because there is no more profits in hardware since everything is commodity. Services are high margin products and very cash rich. you pay some guy $40 an hour and pimp him out for $200 an hour.
i bet these guys didn't like the no personal server part and slipped some code in or left some code from earlier versions in there and leaked it to the internet.
i know people that work in the medical field and a lot of hospitals already have electronic charts. people i know have worked with them for years. going back to 2005 or earlier as far as i can remember.
I bet this is another case of the leftovers crying about investing money in infrastructure that will save them money in the long run but they see it as an expense and fight it. just like the genius MBA's at Dell and HP who concentrated on volume and tight margins while Apple went the opposite direction. Now Mac sales are growing by double digits, profits are rolling in from boring things like computer sales, the prices compared to higher end Dell/HP computers are comparable on the same specs most of the time, and Apple has a much better brand name. And they don't have Asus and Acer taking away their market share
The $300 investment plus the monthly fees is way too much. my Time Warner Cable DVR costs $12.95 a month. and i can upgrade anytime a new model hits their inventory every few years.
TIVO didn't have any broadband support for years after it became popular. i had Vonage since 2003 and couldn't get TIVO because supposedly it didn't work.
my Time Warner DVR isn't the greatest and the new software upgrade last year sucks and is slow as molasses, but its still enough to keep me from spending $300 on a TIVO. and my cable company DVR will record HD with no problem
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do you think they will install malware on your PC?
i've lived in the US for almost 30 years and came from east of the iron curtain. you tin foil people make me laugh.
aren't there only 2 or 3 urban areas in canada?
welcome to the real world. go read a history book, this is exactly how things happened. Look at Britain and France. Mortal enemies for centuries, but as soon as Prussia/Germany rose to power they are now the best of friends. and Britain had a falling out with Prussia in the mid 1800's after centuries of being allies against France.
Same with Russia. Allies in the wars against Napoleon but come the mid 1800's Britain goes to war against Russia because they expand in the Crimea
Apple has a fully licensed MS Exchange client on 50 million or so iphones and ipods
Snow Leapard has a fully licensed MS Exchange 2007 client
MS Office for Mac will have Outlook in the next version
Rumors are Bing is going to displace Google as the default search engine on the iphone
Apple is big in Open Source since OS X is based on some version of BSD. FreeBSD I think
Microsoft doesn't seem to want to compete in the mobile space or with MP3 players. the Zune was a total waste of great hardware
Apple doesn't seem to want to compete in the Enterprise Software market where MS likes to be these days
And Google with their vision of the cloud is the common enemy to Apple and Microsoft's fat client strategy
if i called Google support during the incident, would i have been told the truth. Or would they have told me that everything is fine and to check my end
aren't there any people in the data center to tell them that yes there has been a power outage, so and so machines are affected, etc? sounds like all they have is remote monitoring and if something happens than someone has to drive to the location to see what's wrong
meant running physical hardware is cheaper. especially when some SQL queries request GB's of data
we run MS Terminal Services which is Citrix lite and the ratio is 10 people per server or so. I think the reason they run it is we serve big customers and they don't want to pay for network bandwidth to small offices to run local apps. but we don't run it with dumb terminals on the desktop. if the TS server crashed people would just run apps on the desktop.
if you run the dumb terminal deal it's still going to be way more expensive than buying and supporting desktops. Windows 7 works fine on 5 year old hardware. why spend hundreds of thousands of $$$ on licenses and hardware when there is 10% unemployment. if it doesn't turn out well, you may be out of a job
i use a lot of Google services and it's becoming annoying.
Gmail seems to take forever doing simple things like deleting emails. 10 seconds to delete 100 emails is way too long.
Google Reader has this annoying habit that you can't rename folders and you can't customize the size of the different areas of the screen.
Google Wave other than sucking real bad is slow. and it's a RAM hog. i've had Chrome at 600MB of RAM just on Google Wave.
Google Voice doesn't seem to have a purpose. why would i use it to call people when my iphone does it just fine and a lot faster?
Google Buzz also sucks. it only pulls tweets once or twice a day and you can't send anything.
i missed the mainframe era but some of these things seem just like mainframes are back. you get your bit of computing time and thank the computing gods for the privilege. Google reminds of me of what i read here years ago. a lot of talented tech people think of a cool idea and get it to version .8 or .9 and let the less talented people finish off the details while they go on to the next cool idea. same with Google. they come out with something and even for all of Apple's and Microsoft's buggy software, it's a lot more polished than Google's crap. And a lot of things Google does are done a lot easier and faster with a nice fat client and a server component.
Look at Twitter as an example. The third party clients are awesome compared to the website. Tweetdeck is better than wave or Buzz. in fact i'm using Twitter a lot more for work than Google. A lot of DBA's on Twitter and they will answer a lot of questions and there is the social component of it
i think i read that Google Apps will cost you $50 per user per year. that's about the cost of MS Exchange and Office when amortized over 5 years. why change? than you have SOX issues like backups and having backups of data from years ago available to you
i calculated the cost of a 64GB 8 core server 24x7 at EC2 and it came out to something like $6000 a year. This will run you $10,000 to $13,000 total for a HP PRoliant DL 380 G5.
it's very simple. you buy a server onsite you can use regular hard drives, etc. Amazon and the other cloud providers have to buy all kinds of expensive SAN's and redundancy. In practice they have to buy two servers to let you host your one server that you will buy normal hard drives for.
then there are upgrades. our server purchases this year will replace perfectly working servers that will go to a DR site. it's going to be quick for us. For Amazon once they buy the hardware it may be hard to add new architecture servers to existing clusters. we run VMWare and i've seen the guys cry because it can be finicky about having different models of servers in the same cluster.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have always said that they knew Windows and Office won't last forever. in the last 10 years they expanded into video games, business software, database servers, general IT servers for IT management, etc.The "cloud" is just a buzzword. few months ago i was reading some article about how someone was deploying servers for some internal project. and the article said they were building out a private cloud.
most of the cloud nonsense is for small businesses. i've helped a few build infrastructure and it's a waste of money buying servers, Windows Server licenses, etc. easier and cheaper to outsource it to Azure, Google or someone else.
for larger businesses hardware is so cheap that it doesn't make sense. We're about to buy a few $15,000 servers when the new Intel CPU's come out. 2 6 core CPU's, 72GB of RAM, 500GB to 1TB of hard drive space, all kinds of monitoring capability, etc for $15,000 each.
i was talking to an IT sales person the other day and he didn't even try to sell an hardware to us. he kept on pushing services. servers are a commodity made in China by little kids. just like ipods. I guess services is the next frontier to try to squeeze some profits
this is a cell phone. in the USA when your 2 year contract is up you junk it and buy a new one. you don't treasure it like a Mac like the crazy people on MacRumors do
if it's for using private API's, avoiding the MS bad publicity. everyone worked around MS bugs and Microsoft couldn't make needed changes in their OS's due to developers complaining it was going to cause them to write code. in Vista they had to pull a new anti-virus API because of this.
Apple is just forcing everyone to follow the rules in the developer agreement. last thing Apple wants is to release an iPhone OS update and to have thousands of apps fail due to private API use and then all the devs will complain how it's Apple's fault
hardware is dirt cheap and getting cheaper. you can buy a powerful server for cheap as well. but after you buy the Citrix or whatever licenses, a few more servers for redundancy, a ton of storage at enterprise prices, the enterprise hardware support, increase network bandwidth etc the savings vanish and it's cheaper to just buy regular desktop machines.
same thing with EC2. by the time you put in the network hardware and new circuits and pay Amazon for 24x7 instances it's cheaper to just buy desktops. i'm typing this on a 5 year old HP that runs windows 7 just fine.
i bet all this cloud nonsense is enterprise hardware companies trying to push higher margin products and no real trend that anyone is doing. the numbers just don't work out
i remember 10 years ago i had to move about 300 people's data from a Novell file server to a Windows NT server. we divided the task between myself and a UNIX/Novell admin. It took me 3 hours using all the mouse/keyboard and GUI shortcuts i knew. This guy spent 3 days writing a script that ran for 30 minutes to copy the data.
i still deal with UNIX people sometimes and they want to write scripts for the simplest things that Windows will let you do in a GUI in seconds
Intel is going to release products based on their 25nm manufacturing process in 4Q. Toshiba just doubled their flash density as well and products will start shipping soon. Next few years expect to see a huge explosion in SSD. Just like the late 1990's for hard drives
if they do the normal "private equity" deal what is going to happen is they will buy the company and then "lend" it money from another one of their legal entities along with declaring special dividends. that cash is going to leave Novell and go into the hedge fund. a lot of people will be fired to free up cash that will go to the hedge fund. Once the IPO market becomes better they will sell the company to someone else or if Novell goes belly up they will write it off for the tax benefits.
i just had a chat with a sales rep and the big thing to sell this year is services. everyone is trying to sell services. probably because there is no more profits in hardware since everything is commodity. Services are high margin products and very cash rich. you pay some guy $40 an hour and pimp him out for $200 an hour.
i bet these guys didn't like the no personal server part and slipped some code in or left some code from earlier versions in there and leaked it to the internet.
i know people that work in the medical field and a lot of hospitals already have electronic charts. people i know have worked with them for years. going back to 2005 or earlier as far as i can remember.
I bet this is another case of the leftovers crying about investing money in infrastructure that will save them money in the long run but they see it as an expense and fight it. just like the genius MBA's at Dell and HP who concentrated on volume and tight margins while Apple went the opposite direction. Now Mac sales are growing by double digits, profits are rolling in from boring things like computer sales, the prices compared to higher end Dell/HP computers are comparable on the same specs most of the time, and Apple has a much better brand name. And they don't have Asus and Acer taking away their market share
did you not read the part where it says that this requires Flash?
The $300 investment plus the monthly fees is way too much. my Time Warner Cable DVR costs $12.95 a month. and i can upgrade anytime a new model hits their inventory every few years.
TIVO didn't have any broadband support for years after it became popular. i had Vonage since 2003 and couldn't get TIVO because supposedly it didn't work.
my Time Warner DVR isn't the greatest and the new software upgrade last year sucks and is slow as molasses, but its still enough to keep me from spending $300 on a TIVO. and my cable company DVR will record HD with no problem
not only does Windows run all the software, but Civ4 runs in a window and not as a full screen making it easy to minimize
like giving away free laptops with webcams?
what's wrong with installing Windows via Boot Camp?