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eppp commented on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?    · Posted by u/jwithington
INTPenis · 2 months ago
This is a hot topic among some of my nerdier SME friends, and our conclusion is that the major players are HPE and Nutanix. At least from our perspective over here in Sweden.

HPE did a big brain move to support multiple hypervisor backends with their own frontend. The only way to go forward imho.

I'm using Proxmox at my current $dayjob, and we're quite happy with it. I come from a big VMware shop and I think most businesses could easily replace VMware with Proxmox.

I think Proxmox should just launch an Enterprise contract, regardless of the cost, just have one. Because right now I think the main obstacle halting adoption is their lack of any Enterprise SLA.

On a personal level I would love to see KubeVirt, or Openshift with KubeVirt, take over more. It just seems like a genius move to use the already established APIs of kubernetes with a hypervisor runtime.

eppp · 2 months ago
The lack of support for SANs and ISCSI really bothers me. I like the way this style of setup works, I would like to keep doing it.
eppp commented on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/LorenDB
itslennysfault · 5 months ago
This was even a major hurdle for Google Fiber. The incumbent ISPs did everything they could to obstruct them from installing fiber, and it was fairly effective even against someone with deep pockets like Google.
eppp · 5 months ago
In fairness, google tried to bypass all of the systems that already exist and are widely used for doing pole attachments.
eppp commented on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/LorenDB
bcrl · 5 months ago
2 of my customers explicitly asked for IPv6 prefixes. Another ISP had a couple of users actively using IPv6 15 years ago, but it bitrotted and nobody cared enough to ask for it to be fixed. Another user recently asked to be provided with IPv6 (actually, forcefully demanded it rater) and then didn't even bother to enable IPv6 on their router.

So, yeah, I don't see IPv6 being relevant as a small ISP today.

eppp · 5 months ago
I have had a grand total of one customer ask in almost 10 years. I have the block and announce it but there are so many dangers with implementing it that I am scared to even try yet until we slow down a little.
eppp commented on Cord didn't win. What now?   jg.gg/2025/01/10/cord-did... · Posted by u/eamag
Wilduck · 6 months ago
The irony is that a valid reason for in-house developers to not want to use an external product is concern about the long term support availabilty for that external project. You could make a case that this product shutting down is proof the in-house developers were right not to trust it.

I don't think that's totally fair in this case, since it seems they open sourced their software. But also, in general, I think NIH syndrom gets a bad rap. Sometimes a "worse" solution you control really is more reasonable compared to a technically superior solution made by an external company.

eppp · 6 months ago
Ive been doing this for 20 years and I have had to do several major migrations due to vendors doing all sorts of stupid things. Millions of dollars and so so many hours completely unproductive because a commercial off the shelf product was 'cheaper' to buy initially.
eppp commented on Cord didn't win. What now?   jg.gg/2025/01/10/cord-did... · Posted by u/eamag
IggleSniggle · 6 months ago
The customer's in-house developers raised their hackles and had reservations about using the product, even though the customer's in-house solutions were terrible, because the customer's in-house developers wanted to build it themselves. I'm not sure if the article wasn't well worded and you misunderstood, or if it's me who doesn't see the irony.
eppp · 6 months ago
Perhaps they didn't want to build it themselves and took into account the other risks like the company folding?
eppp commented on Cord didn't win. What now?   jg.gg/2025/01/10/cord-did... · Posted by u/eamag
eppp · 6 months ago
The in house developers raised their hackles and had reservations about using the product even in the face of perceived inferior solutions. The product then goes out of business... The irony of this story...
eppp commented on Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling   thenewstack.io/java-at-30... · Posted by u/chhum
cogman10 · 7 months ago
Let me extol the virtues of Java the language.

You can take pretty much any code written for Java 1.0 and you can still build and run it on Java 24. There are exceptions (sun.misc.Unsafe usage, for example) but they are few and far between. Moreso than nearly any other language backwards compatibility has been key to java. Heck, there's a pretty good chance you can take a jar compiled for 1.0 and still use it to this day without recompiling it.

Both Ruby and Python, with pedigrees nearly as old as Java's, have made changes to their languages which make things look better, but ultimately break things. Heck, C++ tends to have so many undefined quirks and common compiler extensions that it's not uncommon to see code that only compiles with specific C++ compilers.

eppp · 7 months ago
I know that what you said is supposed to be true. However in my real world experience it is anything but. Cisco java programs are a disaster and require certain JVMs to run.
eppp commented on Has the decline of knowledge work begun?   nytimes.com/2025/03/25/bu... · Posted by u/pseudolus
snozolli · 9 months ago
You're also competing with multinationals that can exploit tax loopholes and attract tax incentives and grants.
eppp · 9 months ago
Who have also captured regulators and politicians and use them to cement their advantage by making things too costly and difficult for new startups to compete.
eppp commented on How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop   gamechops.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/fbnlsr
roywiggins · 10 months ago
> We can support musicians we like by adding them to our personal playlists and playing their music every day.

We can also just buy their albums like ye olden times. Buy tracks for $1.29 like ye slightly less olden times! If you have disposable income, buy albums! It's easy and also fun.

eppp · 10 months ago
Who gets the money?
eppp commented on Where is London's most central sheep?   diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/GeoAtreides
dullcrisp · a year ago
I’m saying that if you want to enjoy a city you should find things that you enjoy to do there. If you just show up it’s not surprising that you’ll be unimpressed.
eppp · a year ago
I guess? Seems like a concert for example would be just as fun in a smaller rural venue than a gigantic urban one.

I would enjoy the activity itself without regard of the location. If the city is to be impressive should it not stand on its own?

u/eppp

KarmaCake day789July 1, 2015View Original