lucianf

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by lucianf 3y ago
Hardware, software, consulting, research
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by lucianf 4y ago
That is so wrong. Kyndryl is (was) just infrastructure maintenance and consulting. Business services (IBM Consulting) is that ~5B/quarter thing while Kyndryl keeps sinking.
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by lucianf 4y ago
>Linux + Exim + Spamassassin + greylistd + Dovecot + Sieve is all it takes Obligatory reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by lucianf 6y ago
Another point re $$$'s. Predictable, low pricing is actually a key Oracle cloud selling point. Following the recent wins with Zoom and 8x8 we've put up a comparison sheet [1] and a workload estimator [2]. Then there's the g
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by lucianf 6y ago
Er, I'd argue that aiming for safety and/or following the crowd aren't really the ingredients of a sound decision making process. On that basis no challenger would ever stand a chance.
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by lucianf 6y ago
Point taken. Every time Oracle is mentioned it's in the context of horror licensing stories. I get that - but would it make a difference if I said OCI is actually different? Take this with as much salt as you want but they're real
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by lucianf 6y ago
It does help, there are some early decisions that were made pretty well (the first or second time, at least). Oracle's EC2 is called "compute instances", S3 "object storage", SES "email delivery", Lambda &
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by lucianf 6y ago
Semi-shameless plug (I work for Oracle) but have you tried OCI? You might find both the console UI/UX and the cloud calculator pretty decent. That's just my personal feel, coming over to work as an Oracle cloud consultant with pre
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by lucianf 6y ago
That's really unfounded, unless you're talking about an experience you had years ago when the platform was still in the early stages. The current Gen 2 cloud (OCI) is very much capable. I would strongly suggest you either have a
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by lucianf 6y ago
Yes, you can very much take a credit card and use. There's a free tier [1] which gives you an initial $300 credit for the first 30 days, then if you don't convert to a pay as you go model (absolutely your choice) will drop you to
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by lucianf 6y ago
Care to support that comment please? Mind you, talking about cloud platforms here not parent companies. Not a salespitch, but Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is built with pretty serious enterprise-grade security in mind. Couple of reso
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by lucianf 6y ago
I think that's unfair (I may be biased as I work at Oracle) but many people would argue Oracle is well in the top 5 (if you look at global infrastructure and platform, and discount SaaS-only and/or regional vendors). OCI is also g
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by lucianf 6y ago
That's not fair, this is about OCI not the larger Oracle. It's like bashing Azure for what Microsoft has done in the past (funny how we're not hearing much about that anymore). OCI is cheaper than AWS on pretty much every me
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by lucianf 8y ago
Am I the only one who saw IP mentioned like a hundred times without knowing what it meant?
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by lucianf 8y ago
Read the article in his profile, you'll find your answer in 10 secs. And yeah, with that profile, in that location, I take his point. But not everybody is that lucky :)