That's all the suits need to know about datacenters. They hire cheap guys like you who find more interest in the details than the dollars to build them for them.
Informix has also been around since the 80's. Deeply embedded in both Telco and Government, as well as running a few really big Corp's stuff. (That big orange Home Improvement store comes to mind...) It gets lost in the noise about Oracle, Oracle, Oracle, mostly. Kinda like Marsha, Marsha, Marsha on the Brady Bunch.;-)
I agree with you that PostgreSQL is a good DB. Most of the PostgreSQL "disasters" I've seen were due to DBAs using it incorrectly. Now that I think about it, that's true of all DB disasters I've seen, of any DBMS flavor.:-)
All those things are true, but his point is exactly what you said yourself, PostgreSQL is finally adding "Enterprise features."
Informix still kicks PostgreSQL's ass and is considered an "also-ran" against Oracle in my people's (misguided) view. A great option that's often overlooked because FOSS enthusiasts would never even think of looking at it.
Linux beat Solaris' and the other commercial Unix flavor's licensing. That's really all it did.
The commercial Unix systems kept innovating on top of superior engineering (running multiple Solaris kernels on the same box was possible years before virtualization was a buzzword) but ran out of money.
And your point is that text files and an "ndc reload" could handle that job with a lot less overhead? RDBMS where it doesn't belong is just another source of bugs and points of failure, alternatively in a well-run shop it's a source of endless regression tests when it has to be updated.
Text files don't typically require regression tests or have admins wondering how best to replicate them across sites. rsync can handle the job. And in this case, BIND itself can handle the job.
It's just another swing back to what was originally promised out of the 90s "client/server computing" buzzword.
"Thin clients", and keep the data and processing power on the centralized servers.
The "new" part about this "cloud" stuff is that instead of needing to ask for your own "timeslices" on a big shared computer, they created a way to stuff your own virtualized OS on the thing, and made the "big server" out of a bunch of little ones.
Nothing really all that new here. The main driver is that mobile and hardline bandwidth is cheap now, and people who have more than one network-connected device, want their "stuff" always accessible to them from anywhere they can get Net access.
Don't have to deal with ever-changing user hardware and their machines don't have to be directly on any production network. They're just using their machine as a way to remote control a remote desktop managed and served elsewhere.
Sounds like you handled the virus-laden e-mail wrong. What was it still doing in his inbox? Should'a been gone. If you were nice, a little message saying you'd quarantined or deleted it. Why the hell was the user machine doing the refusal to open it instead of the server getting rid of it?
Wow. Sounds like a call for a PC that one manufacturer controls the whole system from hardware to OS to the most commonly used applications. (Cough, Apple... Cough.)
That person is usually called a "hiring error" when they break things like copy machines, etc. Break a computer, you get the people who get off with "I don't understand that thing anyway."
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Oh poppycock. Some people want to get fake shock and awe articles published saying things are dead when they're not, to get free advertising too.
Only if you put Compressed Air through the bullshit do you get mousse.
That's all the suits need to know about datacenters. They hire cheap guys like you who find more interest in the details than the dollars to build them for them.
That's called a mis 90s laptop, not a netbook. ;)
Ah... the sheep agree that stopping at only 65 million is a sign of their largess and high morals. Well played Winklevii. Well played.
Been there. Done that.
Ah okay, cool.
Informix has also been around since the 80's. Deeply embedded in both Telco and Government, as well as running a few really big Corp's stuff. (That big orange Home Improvement store comes to mind...) It gets lost in the noise about Oracle, Oracle, Oracle, mostly. Kinda like Marsha, Marsha, Marsha on the Brady Bunch. ;-)
I agree with you that PostgreSQL is a good DB. Most of the PostgreSQL "disasters" I've seen were due to DBAs using it incorrectly. Now that I think about it, that's true of all DB disasters I've seen, of any DBMS flavor. :-)
They're all waiting for a broken Firefox emerge bug to be fixed.
U-fucked-Up is the next Linux desktop project, I hear.
I love Linux. I hate Linux desktops.
Or Linux desktops still just look like the metric ass-load of crap they've all been since Enlightenment.
All those things are true, but his point is exactly what you said yourself, PostgreSQL is finally adding "Enterprise features."
Informix still kicks PostgreSQL's ass and is considered an "also-ran" against Oracle in my people's (misguided) view. A great option that's often overlooked because FOSS enthusiasts would never even think of looking at it.
Linux beat Solaris' and the other commercial Unix flavor's licensing. That's really all it did.
The commercial Unix systems kept innovating on top of superior engineering (running multiple Solaris kernels on the same box was possible years before virtualization was a buzzword) but ran out of money.
And your point is that text files and an "ndc reload" could handle that job with a lot less overhead? RDBMS where it doesn't belong is just another source of bugs and points of failure, alternatively in a well-run shop it's a source of endless regression tests when it has to be updated.
Text files don't typically require regression tests or have admins wondering how best to replicate them across sites. rsync can handle the job. And in this case, BIND itself can handle the job.
Over-engineered.
Jokes are supposed to be funny.
Mainframes never worked. ;-)
It's just another swing back to what was originally promised out of the 90s "client/server computing" buzzword.
"Thin clients", and keep the data and processing power on the centralized servers.
The "new" part about this "cloud" stuff is that instead of needing to ask for your own "timeslices" on a big shared computer, they created a way to stuff your own virtualized OS on the thing, and made the "big server" out of a bunch of little ones.
Nothing really all that new here. The main driver is that mobile and hardline bandwidth is cheap now, and people who have more than one network-connected device, want their "stuff" always accessible to them from anywhere they can get Net access.
Don't have to deal with ever-changing user hardware and their machines don't have to be directly on any production network. They're just using their machine as a way to remote control a remote desktop managed and served elsewhere.
Here here. Well said.
s/cooler/more useful for everything I do/g
Sounds like you handled the virus-laden e-mail wrong. What was it still doing in his inbox? Should'a been gone. If you were nice, a little message saying you'd quarantined or deleted it. Why the hell was the user machine doing the refusal to open it instead of the server getting rid of it?
Wow. Sounds like a call for a PC that one manufacturer controls the whole system from hardware to OS to the most commonly used applications. (Cough, Apple... Cough.)
Damn you auto-correct! Citrix!
Citric/RDP makes a lot more sense that virtualizing the OS.
That person is usually called a "hiring error" when they break things like copy machines, etc. Break a computer, you get the people who get off with "I don't understand that thing anyway."
Where would they go? AT&T is bad. T-Mobile is being bought by AT&T. Sprint with their awful coverage?
Yeah "i" for insert and ESC three times when you're done is rocket science. We know. ;-)