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Wow, for the first time in decades I see a sliver of hope for IBM's relevance.
by fanatic2pope 7y ago
Wow, for the first time in decades I see a sliver of hope for IBM's relevance.
- acruns 7y agolol!
- mathattack 7y agoRedHat shares IBM’s model of “change the terms and product definitions every year and audit folks to death who can’t switch providers” They are going to irrelevance together.
- linuxftw 7y agoI've worked with several large firms that had large footprints of Red Hat products and never heard about them being audited. You're confusing them with Oracle.
- stuff4ben 7y agoI worked for Cisco who were big RH users (RHEL, OpenStack, OpenShift, Quay, etc). We were audited and it basically comes up when contracts are renewed. It's not a bad thing, you just need to be honest about what you're using and how much and then just pay the man. Or don't and switch to other offerings. One thing I liked about RH is that they worked with you vs Oracle which was pure evil when it came being audited.
- op00to 7y agoNo, just sounds like that person can’t keep track of how many system they deploy.
- linuxftw 7y agoWell, it's not always as simple as 'how many systems' even when you're talking about just an operating system. There's licensing based on cores and/or sockets. Then there's licensing for virtual machines. Oracle was really nasty in some of the licensing scenarios, IIRC. If you ran an Oracle DB on an unlicensed platform in a VM (such as VMWare), then when you got audited, you needed to pay for how many cores/sockets were in the physical server, rather than just how much CPU your VM was using.