Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Tue Jun 4 14:49:07 CDT 2013
Hi Jim It's vm ware not sure which one. We have built a large vm stack which is currently rolling out. I would have went hyper v but systems and networks run that bit. We get a very preferred rate from ms. We have hundreds of lynx, unix etc and databases from MySQL to oracle. My own focus is ms stack so that's all I see really. Martin Sent from my iPad On 4 Jun 2013, at 20:45, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Martin: > > Can I assume that you will now be using the new MS barebones server Hyper-V > 2012...free with basic interface. Another page right out of the Linux play > book. > > The savings at the university will probably be about $2500 per server plus > connection licenses so in theory the saving could be half a millions or > more. > > Traditionally, I have found very few servers in the universities, > governments or larger businesses being anything else but UNIX/Linux so you > must be a bit of a test-bed for Microsoft and therefore allows the > university to receive preferred rates. > > In my younger years, it was annoying that there was no place for MS SQL > servers except within smaller government departments as our provincial and > federal governments were covered by a one hundred percent Oracle site > license and therefore all servers were UNIX/Linux. I doubt whether things > have changed since then. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin Reid > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:13 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 > > Yip. But then we have hundreds > > Martin > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ________________________________ > From: Jim Lawrence > Sent: 04/06/2013 19:07 > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 > > Hi Martin: > > You mean running MS servers? > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin Reid > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 12:07 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 > > Close. Appears tech ed USA they will sell you one for 100 dollars. > > In saying that I met MS yesterday and seen a demo of a cross platform app, > running on multiple devices. Same experience on all of them including > surface, win phone, ipad and android. Was most impressive. > > We are not going win 8 but are going with them as our core systems. > > Martin > > Sent from my iPad > > On 3 Jun 2013, at 21:57, "Hans-Christian Andersen" > <hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > >> Pretty soon they'll be giving them away for free with an order of fries at > McDonalds. :p >> >> How well are Windows 8 Surface tablets selling anyways? Last i heard, none > too well either. >> >> - Hans >> >> >> On 2013-06-03, at 9:34 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: >> >>> Hi John: >>> >>> Along with your new tag, you have brought up a very interesting subject. > It >>> may be a little out of step for this list but it is definitely tech > related. >>> >>> Large tech firms all become arrogant and as they grow they forget who put >>> them on the top. Many such companies have come and gone...Borland, VAX, >>> Lotus, Novell, SCO and so on...they were momentarily huge but are now > mostly >>> gone and forgotten. >>> >>> For decades Microsoft was run by a tough and shrewd business man, along > with >>> his sidekick (Sancho Panza(?)). Now his old sidekick is trying to run >>> things. The new man is not an equal, not a visionary and viewed more as a >>> court-jester. Ballmer's running of the company has caused it to stagger > from >>> one disaster to another. The only thing that has kept the company from >>> collapsing has been the huge cash cows like Office and a stable of some > of >>> the finest developers and managers in the business. The truth is that MS >>> could go on for a long long time with this type of leadership but it will >>> never regain its once held position in the market and will just slowly >>> erode. >>> >>> Ballmer's latest disaster is Windows RT. > http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/03/microsoft-stop-trying-to-make-windows-rt-ha >>> ppen/ >>> >>> Microsoft could have easily solved the new low powered chip issues like >>> Linux did by simply making the OS handle it. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of >>> jbartow at winhaven.net >>> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:42 PM >>> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 >>> >>> Name a company that doesn't do this. Has Google ever released anything > not >>> in "Beta"? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence >>> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:20 PM >>> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 >>> >>> <rant mode on> >>> Microsoft has violated one of the major laws of development: >>> >>> "Treat your users as co-developers." >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com