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It’s less understanding/stupidity and more an issue with laziness/desire. I have no doubt that 99% of people who actually did vote selected their first rank choice and say eff it to the rest of the rankings. Too much effort and time to complete.

Honestly, I can’t wait for Michael Dell and others whose companies heavily leverage China to have an all out fucking tissyfit over the fallout from this.

Both Supermicro and HPE have the longest support of their products than the others.

You can basically get rack mount level performance from:

• Supermicro SuperWorkstation Tower Servers
• Lenovo Thinkstation P Series Server Towers
• HPE ML series Tower Servers
• Dell Precision Tower Workstations

In your situation, I’d be looking at ebay, serversupply, or other used hardware resalers that offer 2 generations back hardware. Used DDR4 based systems are abundant and cheap enough, go that route.

Have your group ask microsoft what the charges for Azure will be for your year 3 year 4 and year 5 commitments.

100% sure the Azure rep will gag on whatever they have in their mouths at that moment and start deflecting. If MS can fuck the US Government in a 10yr Azure contract, odds are pretty high they’ll do the same to Disney.

Source: Our company bought into O365+Azure+ADFS at a good rate for 3yrs, then got burned by MS once the honeymoon was over. They’re not going to make it fun for you all once your contract ends.

I manage 30 Esxi hosts with around 800 VMs currently on vSphere Enterprise licensing. Our company is preparing for the worst case by employing a 3yr plan involving:

• Upgrading all perpetual lics still under contract to vsphere 8

(So we can run on unsupported vsphere 8 for up to 3yrs. if needed or until a resolution is found)

• Assigning members from QC, Cyber security and Systems as an exploratory solutions planning group who report to the CIO and CTO.

(So we can explore different hybrid solutions, assign them for evaluation and give feedback based on those findings annually)

• Hiring a Reseller partner of ours to do an audit plus an impact analysis in moving our environment from VMware to one of the exploratory solutions planning group recommendations.

(My company fancies getting ‘non-biased’ opinions from external sources, so we tolerate it)

• Building active-active, multi -master, active-passive and active-failover hybrid solutions including those with SaaS vendors for our highest value systems.

(While expensive to do, this option gives us a clear nuclear level fuck you to VMware should pricing become too outrageous and we decide to pull out of renewal)

In the end, we will probably give VMware a 3yr probation period, regardless of cost and have a clear migratory path before that time should we decide that VMware’s TCO is no longer viable.

Amazon Price tracker and other similar ones for big box stores help dispel that thankfully.

Masturbating…

I cringe and have flashbacks hearing that dialup noise… Hang up the phone, I’m on a free AOL diskette for two more hours!

Southpark Scott all growed up. I see his diet bedes issue has gotten worse.

The scary part is that this “treatment” was acceptable for multiple mental disorders up until the 1960s.

Electro Shock Therapy (EST) aka Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) on the other hand was rampant for at least a decade or more.

Only reason I know that is because I had to research it for my family tree. At the age of 14, my Great Grandmother was treated for Depression and Anxiety with EST from 1909 to 1913, then got pregnant and lost the baby from it. She stopped the “therapy”, but it left her borderline schizophrenic the rest of her life.

As a California native who has commuted 2hrs a day to work for decades, but got to live in the UK for a year: I was way more productive when I commuted by light rail/subway.

Instead of looking out for aholes looking to break check, cut you off, deny you changing lanes; I was able to respond to emails, make some calls and even have a descent breakfast off the morning truck while sitting in a wifi available seat traveling into London from Gatwick each day. Way less stressful overall.

Not in California though. You can own it, but you can’t buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They’re also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.

Kilt lifter.

Bed has bugs in it…

Plextor CDRWs with Verbatim 50yr gold disks ftw.

Thank you for making me laugh.

Migratory path of all Floridaman species.

Upvote just for Pinky and the Brain reference. ;)