by wwarren | Aug 28, 2012 | Open Source
SBS was a good idea with SBS 2003. with 2008 they began doing the Microsoft thing and jacking the price up. SBS 2011 was such a huge, bloated, overpriced mess that very few wanted it. What does this mean? I have much cheaper and even free ways to do what SBS...
by wwarren | Aug 28, 2012 | Cloud Computing
What was interesting is the CEO who announced this horrid pricing was a former Microsoftie so I can’t say the announcement was surprising in that regard. To borrow from another blogger…vmware thought they had more leverage over their client base than they...
by wwarren | Aug 27, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Hardware, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Storage
I mentioned in an earlier post about how Quickbooks ties many accountants to Windows. Well I’ve found a partial yet money-saving workaround. We leverage virtualization even more but not in the typical way. Instead of setting up a NAS/DAS/SAN you run it off...
by wwarren | Aug 27, 2012 | Apple, Hardware, Linux, Smartphone
This is what i thought. A jury in Silicon Valley with bias towards Apple(seeing Jobs as nearly a deity) has now been seen by their own words as stepping outside the bounds of not only their instructions but also of their own “expertise”. this jury...
by wwarren | Aug 23, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
I’m not a huge fan of the cloud. It is based on simply refarmed mainframe technology and based on a broken security model. However for those who really make the jump to a truly all cloud system there’s one major benefit. Your desktop software costs go to...