Bocaj - Slashdot User

How can I justify using Red Hat when CentOS exists-> 7

Submitted by Bocaj on Saturday October 29 2011, @10:35AM

Bocaj writes "I recently spec'd out a large project for our company that included software from Red Hat. It came back from the CIO with everything approved except I have to use CentOS. Why? Because "it's free Red Hat." Personally I really like the CentOS project because it puts enterprise class software in the hands of people who might not otherwise afford it. We are not those people. We have money. In fact I questioned the decision by asking why the CIO was willing to spend money on another very similar project and not this one. The answer was "because there is no free alternative." I know this has come up before and I don't want to beat a dead horse, but this is still a very persistent issue. Our CIO is convinced that technical support for any product is worthless. He's will to spend money on "one-time" software purchases, but nothing that is an annual subscription. There is data to support that the Red Hat subscription is cheaper that many other up-front paid software products but not CentOS. The only thing it lacks is support, which the CIO doesn't want. Help?"
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Microsoft Live Cloud Burst-> 0

Submitted by Bocaj on Wednesday August 17 2011, @04:13PM

Bocaj writes "The college I work for recently switch to Microsoft's Live@EDU (http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-email-accounts.aspx) email system. It was considered to be more stable than our in-house system. Today is the first day of classes and Live@EDU has now been down for almost an hour with no ETA of recovery. So much for cloud computing."
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OMGWTFBBQ Baked Beans-> 0

Submitted by Bocaj on Tuesday June 09 2009, @04:14PM

Bocaj writes "A USB microwave specifically designed for baked beans? Yep, the folks at HEINZ are smokin' the good stuff. Seriously. Even Gizmodo says it's real. I want one of these. I'm just not sure why."
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Corporate Print/Copy/Scan Solutions? 0

Submitted by Bocaj on Monday March 31 2008, @10:19AM

Bocaj writes "I work an office where we support about 7 multi-function copiers. They allow copying, printing, fax, scan to the network and print to fax. At least when they work. They break all the time and our support company promptly comes out and fixes it, but the downtime is still a problem. When a machine goes down, that office loses a lot of functions. I've thought about setting up a station with a PC, scanner, and a bank of printers (for redundancy and speed). Has anyone tried this? I'm ready to throw these multi-function machines in the lake."

SCO stock plummets, the zombie destroyed-> 0

Submitted by Bocaj on Wednesday August 15 2007, @09:06AM

Bocaj writes "I know the SCO fiasco has been covered to death, but I've always believed that the end wouldn't come until the money was gone (it's the American Way). So, it looks like as of yesterday the coffers have dried up according to ars technica. It seems this is the end of SCO, and not just the lawsuit. My condolences to those geeks that will get laid off because of this, but I don't feel bad for the company as a whole. It was a zombie resurrected from the corpse of a once proud UNIX corp., that was bent on eating the brains of its brethren."
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