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What I Need From Support

With consumer products my expectation for a good one is to never break — I don’t ever want to have to call their support. But when it comes to the toys we use in data centers I want to hit all of the big issues during QA and I want it to break down so badly that it will stump the technical support team so we get a chance to test their infrastructure and protocols.

That’s exactly what happened to one of the key products we selected for our latest large scale implementation.

No more SUN

After running ORACLE on SUN for over 7 years and being the big proponent of it I have finally said enough is enough. Starting this summer our shop made a switch to Linux (HP) and so far I could not be happier. I just don’t get it with SUN anymore they keep digging [...]


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