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Posts by Peter Black
21 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Mar 2009
Microsoft embraces its inner penguin as sudo sneaks into Windows 11
Tech contractor loses IR35 tribunal appeal: 'Right' to substitute didn't mean he could, say judges
Tuesday 15th June 2021 13:31 GMT
Re: A couple of things here I'm surprised about
The comment is not about the contract, but about a particular clause, the exercise of which is deemed to be hypothetical.
People employed by those outsourcing companies are typically (though not always) employees, and are taxed and pay NI as such. Their situation is therefore not comparable.
How do you like them Apples? Cook drops 'record' 30 times* on conf call as iPhone sales up, services up, wearables up
SAP okays Java EE being Eclipsed, six months after Oracle's announcement
Azure Stack's debut ends the easy ride for AWS, VMware and hyperconverged boxen
Tuesday 11th July 2017 08:31 GMT
A different battle
There's absolutely no reason for AWS to enter this space. It's probably a sizeable market, but Amazon know where the growth lies and what they do best. Putting kit on premises makes no sense, except where it represents an on-ramp to public cloud. It's not that long ago that Microsoft promised to ship an Azure software stack that would effectively compete with OpenStack. Now, they have now decided to ship the appliance that they promised they'd deliver back in 2010. As I say, there's a market for this, but it's hard not to see it as largely transitional.
Take a sneak peek at Google's Android replacement, Fuchsia
Ancient telly, check. Sonos sound system, check. OMG WOAH
UK citizens to Microsoft: Oi. We WANT ODF as our doc standard
Woz backs Chinese 'Apple of Far East' in play for US hardware market
iPhone 5S: Apple, you're BORING us to DEATH (And you too, Samsung)
Surface RT: A plan worthy of the South Park Underpants Gnomes
Saturday 20th July 2013 13:33 GMT
Re: Surface RT not a bad product - distribution was the let down
Actually, while it's nice to think that the problem has a simple solution, it's not really true that distribution would have fixed this. A decent range of apps, for example, would have been necessary.
Also, the idea that XBox is an example of success is worrying. It sits in a loss-making division, whereas Tools and Servers are the areas that really blow the doors off. Knowing what you're good at is one key to success.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/19/microsoft_q4_2013_earnings/
Apple shifts 3 million iPads in 3 days: But how many were Minis?
LOHAN demonstrates impressive sucking skills
Lenovo chiefs chortle over decision to buy IBM's PC biz
Thursday 18th August 2011 22:36 GMT
Understand your purpose
The slightly sneering tone of the initial sentence of the article, and some of the subsequent comments, misunderstand what IBM has done. That someone else can claim success with a business you've sold might be construed as proof of the validity of your decision, not evidence that you could have achieved the same thing. IBM is no Apple, and this is a high volume, low margin business that added little to the company's capabilities. Ultimately, it is a testament to IBM's understanding of its purpose as a company that it felt able to decide that this business was not part of its future.
Piles for Windows - a pain in the arse?
OpenOffice 3.2 - now with less Microsoft envy
Sunday 14th February 2010 10:32 GMT
Office 2007 files
I think it would be fair to point out that there's been a separate plugin that allowed versions of OpenOffice prior to 3.2 to open MS Office 2007 files. With 3.2 that support is improved and comes integrated out of the box.
It would also be reasonable to point out that Microsoft has made something of a dog's breakfast in supporting the new file formats on versions of Office for Mac....
Rattled Red Hat battles support impostors
Thursday 21st January 2010 10:07 GMT
Solaris is the key?
What scares Red Hat is not Unbreakable Linux, but Oracle buying Sun and Larry finally getting his own operating system. There are a lot of benefits to Red Hat that arise from Oracle's current commitment to Unbreakable Linux, not least from the enhanced support for the Red Hat strain of Linux and the explicit support for the assertion that Linux is a viable server platform for Oracle.
However, once Larry has Solaris he has an operating system with unique characteristics that he can choose to tune to provide features and performance unavailable on other platforms. OpenSolaris will continue, but Solaris 11 will likely be a tuned OS for Oracle, and to get it you will need an Oracle subscription. Suse Linux is simply a distraction.
IDC: Linux support sales to break $1bn in 2012
Thursday 20th August 2009 14:56 GMT
License restrictions
The comments on installing RHEL without support are a little confused, as you buy a subscription that includes support and a license to use the binary distribution. Thus, it is not legal to download and install the RHEL binary without paying for the subscription/license.
You could, of course, download the source and build it yourself (or go to CentOS who do it for you) but I doubt that's what these RHEL users are doing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
