Forgot your password?

typodupeerror

Comment: Re:Contrast with consumer hard drive prices (Score 1) 96

by Bravoc (#38626270) Attached to: NetApp, Lenovo Raise Prices, Citing Thailand Flooding Effects
Oh yea, don't get me wrong - they made money on the HDs. The thing is, they make WAY more on the software. When it comes down to it though, their money is in the software.

I probably shouldn't have opened my mouth anyway, I got sick of defending their hard drive prices when I worked there, been gone over a year - don't want to revisit that BS.

Comment: Re:Contrast with consumer hard drive prices (Score 2) 96

by Bravoc (#38621110) Attached to: NetApp, Lenovo Raise Prices, Citing Thailand Flooding Effects
I worked at NetApp for 11 years. The intent never was to sell hard drives, the intent was to sell the software; ONTAP, Snap*, etc.

Dan Warmenhoven used to tell people "give away disks, but sell the software licenses." They make almost nothing on drive sales, they make huge margins on the software

Comment: Re:What? IT Workers GET OVERTIME? (Score 1) 1167

by Bravoc (#38238076) Attached to: US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers
All the tech jobs I've had since 1990, have me listed as "exempt". Exempt from overtime that is. AKA salary, which means they own you and it is NEVER 40 hour weeks. More like 50-60, with the occasional 40 hour week almost like paid vacation. So.... there are IT people who aren't "professionals" - oh yea, I remember, I called Dell Tech Support - once.
Linux

Red Hat moving engineering operations to Silicon V->

Submitted by Bravoc
Bravoc writes "So it seems that Red Hat might be thinking about ditching the "great white north" in favor of a more conventional software home on the west coast. Being a Si Valley expatriate myself, I can't imagine why anyone would WANT to locate a business there. Could it be that the once golden fields of Sunnyvale and such are hurting for businesses and offering tax incentives now? Quite a change from the years gone by where Si Valley was the "place to be""
Link to Original Source

If we won't stand together, we don't stand a chance.

Working...