Posted on 12/03/2015 6:53:38 PM PST by dayglored
If you read the article, it’s plain to see that the cost doesn’t change from Server 2012 R2 Standard all the way up to 4x 8-core procs. This is much ado about nothing. We’re already in negotiations for our E3, and our pricing hasn’t changed at all.
It's not always that simple. Even with RHCSAs on staff, we still have to call Red Hat for support on issues that need to be resolved quickly. Given enough time, any engineer can solve any problem, but when you're talking about losses in the millions of dollars per hour range, time is literally money.
Same goes with Microsoft. While I have 20 years of experience with Microsoft operating environments and have Microsoft certifications, there are some issues I just need resolved quickly and have to rely on Microsoft for that reason.
Large corporations require extensive infrastructure to maintain business, and while supporting a single LAMP RHEL box is one thing, supporting a farm of 50 LAMP servers behind an F5 load balancer with WAN optimizers and other infrastructure considerations adds troubleshooting effort to any resolution timeline.
HA! You can, but you're on your own buddy!
One such meeting, my contact there, a program manager with a wicked sense of humor, was presenting, and at the end of the slides filled with the acronyms, he gave a summary of the possible outcomes with the customer, including a) continuing close relationship, b) loose cooperation, and c) something called "FYBYOYO", pronounced "fib-yo-yo".
Asked what it meant, he replied, "That's: 'F**k You Buddy, You're On Your Own".
It's come in handy many times in succeeding years.
FYBYOYO. I like it.
Including running it like crazy on Azure. Our Microsoft Account Engineer told us during our last briefing that Linux with OpenStack, Chef and Puppet along with MySQL were the fastest growing platforms in Azure.
They see the writing on the wall.
What's truly amazing is that I know a fair number of large organizations running Linux w/OpenStack and MySQL, Chef, Puppet and other Open Systems components and they all give Microsoft Azure very high marks for it. Enough so that some of them are shifting away from Amazon, RackSpace, etc.. Microsoft's making big in-roads in the Cloud.
I'm frankly very surprised by how fast they're doing it too.
First I've seen that one, and I love it! You can bet I'll be using that soon! :-)
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