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The Congressional hearing tossed gore and his lore out the window. With plenty of scientific evidence.

The numbers have come out and the damn planet's global average hasn't gone up, nor down. Not in 16 years.

- Dan.
 

I wonder how far they thought they would get flying a small craft a bit larger and slower than a pigeon, over an area that's had people successfully shooting pigeons??

I wish I could have been there to hear that debate:

1. "Hey they are shooting pigeons"
2. "Wow, that's a pretty tough target to hit"
1. "Yea, lets fly something loud, slow and bigger to capture evidence of the shooting".
2. "Show we film it?"
1. "Nah..."

[quote]
My advice would be to just look for the one with the best documentation, because as a newbie that's your biggest problem
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So this definitively rules out Oracle...

I will add Cast to that list also. Personally I Love VMWare. It has free licences, it's easy for people just starting out without sacrificing more advanced features.

There are some parts of VMware that cost though, but I can live with out them.

Mod Up. This is true.

Googled "care provider forced to join union"

How the Forced Unionization of Day Care and Home Health Care Providers Took Place
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16241

‘FORCED UNIONIZATION’: SEIU COLLECTS UNION DUES FROM DISABLED KIDS’ MEDICAID CHECKS
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/forced-unionization-seiu-collects-union-dues-from-disabled-kids-medicaid-checks/

I smell astroturf...

If Engineered correctly;

- There will be no single point of failure.
- A failure registers as an amber light on a server
- Tech gets the notice.
- Dell is called and they fix it.

[quote]If running your own hardware was bottom-line effective, there wouldn't be so much migration towards cloud solutions.[/quote]

I can't account for the power of good marketing, FUD and hype. I think it's largely due to people not thinking things through, and engineers that want a magick box, or an easy button.

In this case doubling the price is not a small premium.

While it's every Engineer's dream to not have to mess with hardware, clouds don't make sense from a business perspective.

- Dan.

Provide a use case please.

I agree on both your points.

It's a good place to fire up something to experiment with, and a good place for new companies just starting out.

But there are large enterprises that have completely missed the memo regarding static collocation vs the cloud.

- Dan.

Because it's a waste of time.

Rackspace is trying to keep everyone focused on the hype of the cloud, to keep racking in your dough.

One "Cloud Server" with 16Gig of Ram and 4 Procs with rackspace would cost me $700+ .

I can get a third of a cabinet from CoreNap for less than $400 Month. I can fill that space with vastly more powerful hardware for about 5k. ( Shopping Smart )

Now lets do the math assuming a hardware life cycle of 5 years.
400 x 12 == 4,800 ( one year )
4,800 * 5 == 24,000 ( Five years )

hardware: $5,000
52 weeks in a year times 5 years == 260 weeks.

Spread the cost of the hardware over 5 years. ( Cash outright or lease )
$5,000 / 260 weeks. == .01923 per week for the hardware.

Not worth adding to the 24,000 you will spend over the next 5 years, compared to the 42,000 you will spend for a single inferior server instance at Rackspace.

And you're not eliminating engineers by going to the cloud. You still need admins.

- Dan.

Samba has been around literally for decades and has seen constant reliable use.

You're suggestion that the software is new and poorly designed is invalid.

There are good admins and bad admins. If software that has been successfully deployed for multitudes of years has been a problem then bad admins are far more likely to blame.

- Dan.

Poor administration is not the software / OS fault.

WAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

You cry like a New-Yorker.

Go run from Air Force One again. That was funny.

- Dan.

Why does everyone get all butt-hurt when New York's 'Victim Status' is challenged?

As storms go, it was weak. Barely hurricane force. Category 1.

Go to New Orleans and try bitching about it.

- Dan.

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