TL;DR: The answer is an astounding NO.
comador
IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.
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3·1 year agoYeah, we dumped Cisco for Aruba two years ago. Completely replaced the entire company core network infra. No major complaints.
On the Enterprise side of things, I was a huge VCE fan pre-Dell days. Only thing close to that now is Pure Flashstack, which isn’t bad, just pricey. I’m just not a Dell fan, Michael Dell is a fuck-whit.
Comparing my experience with Cisco B and C Class, HPE DL and Dell PE server experience over the past 20 years:
Cisco: Expensive, Good support/service during lifetime of product, excellent management tools w/o buying additional lics, reliable, but eosl/eol is short and poorly supportable after.
DELL: Just retired some 30 of their servers and storage. No regrets. Expensive, horrible support, licensing is a nightmare, but e360 and online tools were better than others. EOL/EOSL support is okay for a max of 2 yrs afterwards.
HPE: Just deployed 20 DL380G10+, Cheaper than other 2, licensing is a pita, support is meh, but InfoSight and support costs are cheap and there’s good support past eol/eosl.
I’ve done the whole white box thing like SuperMicro a number of times and while it is cheaper upfront, it’s a headache over time.
Then there’s California where NEM 3.0 makes it less than worth while to install or upgrade your existing solar installation.
It’s like people hate ads so much they’re willing to change browsers… gasp
Google had a revelation.
Southpark Scott all growed up. I see his diet bedes issue has gotten worse.
Not in California though. You can own it, but you can’t buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They’re also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.
Thank you for sharing Fediverse Explorer, super useful!
Plextor CDRWs with Verbatim 50yr gold disks ftw.
Migratory path of all Floridaman species.
Then you think about how long ago it was we did all those dl ratios and auto bots promoting sites on UUNET, DALNET or others…
Upvote just for Pinky and the Brain reference. ;)
Okay, so I gotta pinch it off twice then?
As someone who was Sun Certified 5.7.1 to version 10, I feel this way too hard as well.
Failed to innovate while riding the gravy train too long, lack of compensation in the face of rising costs, manufacturing issues, defective CPUs and nothing competitive. Yup, time to retire lol