jwithington (u/jwithington)

jwithington commented on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dut... · Posted by u/robtherobber

jwithington · 18 days ago

The lock-in is around identity services, right?

Servicing the jobs-to-be-done of the core applications is pretty straightforward I think.

I'm not sure what keeps people locked in besides identity. Article doesn't really specify.

jwithington commented on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed steveblank.com/2025/11/11... · Posted by u/ridruejo

BirAdam · a month ago

That was actually the original name.

Edit: from 1798 until 1949

jwithington · a month ago

Negative, the Department of War was the predecessor to the Dept of the Army. There used to be a Secretary of the Navy and a Secretary of War, both of whom rolled up direct to the president.

Following post-WWII reorgs, the DoD was created and the Secretary of War became the Secretary of the Army, reporting to the Secretary of Defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th...

jwithington commented on ChatGPT Atlas chatgpt.com/atlas... · Posted by u/easton

jwithington · 2 months ago

Why MacOS only and not Windows?

jwithington commented on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware? · Posted by u/jwithington

pickle-wizard · 2 months ago

In my sphere most companies are going to either Hyper-V or the cloud. Hyper-V kinda won by default as a lot of orgs already had Windows Server licenses.

jwithington · 2 months ago

hard to beat the MSFT bundle

jwithington commented on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware? · Posted by u/jwithington

tiffanyh · 2 months ago

What’s next best alternative (regardless of cost)?

  Virtualbox
  Parallel
  Hyper-V

Anything else? Which is best?

jwithington · 2 months ago

That's the $XXM question.

jwithington 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.

jwithington · 2 months ago

Yes, I'd think Openshift with Kubevirt would be positioned to move in. Lots of Openshift in some of the sectors I've worked with so seems like a natural expansion.

I forgot about MSFT's ability to bundle Hyper-V though which seems to come up in this thread a lot.

Love the username.

jwithington commented on Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing ricklamers.io/posts/gemin... · Posted by u/ricklamers

jwithington · 2 months ago

grok 4's controller lol

jwithington commented on I only use Google Sheets mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga

jwithington · 2 months ago

I was the internal tools PM that looked at the portfolio of products and asked, "Why aren't all of these just Google Sheets?"

Pivoted out of there lol

jwithington commented on A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers propublica.org/article/mi... · Posted by u/danso

jwithington · 5 months ago

i don't really understand why folks are downplaying this in the comments:

some engineers who write the code for production US systems that contain controlled unclassified information live in china. the US government was unaware that this was happening because MSFT hid it from them. as a result, govt stakeholders are/were unable to assess the risk.

all MSFT ATO's should be revoked.

some of the comments point out that foreign workers will help maintain facilities overseas, but govt stakeholders are aware of this, assess the risk, and implement risk controls.

but shady M$FT hid this from govt, and that amplifies the problem!

disclaimer: am google