Posts by Randall Shimizu

HockTan seems oblivious and callous to customer concerns.... VMware is now beginning to realize that customers will not put up with this.

I liked OS/2 to for many years. IBM should have hired MS as subcontractor to develop the OS/2 code. This way IBM would have complete control over the OS/2 code. IBM also had this strange aversion to marketing. For some reason IBM insisted on marketing to their existing customer base. So therefore it was hard to attract new customers. IBM was planning a big marketing campaign for OS/2 warp. But tIBM's management pulled back at the last minute. IBM also did not press their advantage during the Win 95 era. OS/2 Warp server client/server technology had a huge advantage over NT. The odd thing is that IBM although Warp server had client server features they did not have a internal C/S marketing strategies. This would have allowed OS/2 to gain a huge market share in enterprise arena. IBM eventually gave up on OS/2 when Lou Gerstner came in. IBM made a commitment however that they would support their OS/2 customers as long as was needed. It actually twice as long to wind down OS/2 was originally projected. Serenity systems took over OS/2 and lied about have permission to make "approved" code modification to OS. When in fact Serenity systems only had access OS/2 GUI code. After this I gave up on OS/2. Today Windows is a very robust and stable OS. Satya Nadella is probably one the best CEO's in the computer industry.

Perhaps the display will have the ability to nontransparent background. For example it display a solid white that you cannot see through

The PC have not demonstrably shown use cases for AI PC's. The PC industry needs to show how offloading Ai functions to the PC will increase ROI for companies and people. Gaming probably has the most potential for increasing AI performance...We should also remember that much of what we do is in the cloud.

Unbelievable how channel unfriendly Broadcom/Vmware has become. Vmware is the anti-channel company....!! Remind of when Larry Ellison said "every time a partner makes money it takes a dollar out of my pocket". In the end I believe Broadcom/Vmware channel tactics will ultimately boomerang on them. VMware is already facing serious competition from cloud & container products like Redhat. So far Broadcom has acquired a company that is dependent on partners as VMware is. But for some odd reason Tan Hock views partners as competitors. In the end I believe that Broadcom will end up spiing off products or divesting them.

Cyber insurance

Requiring companies to have cyber insurance that covers ransomware seems like a good option. The issue would be getting companies to comply with security standards for insurance companies..This insurance requirement would be limited to publicly listed companies and ones that are above a certain size. The other companies would be those that are deemed to becritical infrastructure

There has been this knee jerk return to office policy from many companies recently. Companies are not taking enough time to examine if RTO makes sense and or what the right hybrid combination is. I believe that a 3 day or no remote work does not much sense. Broadcom's elimination work from home does or Elon Musk's comment that "work from home" is i mmoral" is ridiculous. It probably make much more sense to have "return to office" day.

MS is introducing Teams meetings with advanced Avatar features. This will probably do a lot to increase collaboration.

It is outrageous that the NSA is selling personal info to private industry. The NSA has away with a lot of stuff under the veil of top secret. For many years the the NSA was able to target US citizens phone cals with out a FiSA warant. They did this by superstitiously rerouting a domestic call overseas and then back again. This allowed them to listen in on domestic phone calls.

VMware's number one customer complaint is their outlandish licensing costs. VMware is oblivious to customer concerns. Most companies in the SMB market are not using VMware or migrated to MS's Hyper-V. This has allowed MS to migrate them to the cloud. While the restructuring seems like a good first step they need to redo their corporate culture. Integrating VMware into Broadcom is a step in the wog direction.

At this point it is probably best for MS to invest more in OpenAI so that they can protect their investment. Doing so would protect their IP in OpenAI. Perhaps Sam Altman could remain a employee of both companies. MS would agree to OpenAI to operate as a largely independent company.

Vmware seems oblivious to customer concerns about licensing costs. These days I rarely hear of businesses using Vwmware in the SMB market. There is many companies that are satisfied with Hyper-V. Now with Azure they migrate their workloads to the cloud. Vmware needs to adjust their licensing for the SMB market.

VMware has a lot of changes they need make. Vmware needs show IT that their products/solutions are still relevant. Simplifying licensing & make their prices more reasonable. High licensing costs is the number one complaint I hear often..

VMWare has a multitude of different issues facing them. VMware has done of a poor job of defining how their solutions to IT issues in today's market. Vmware's products are over priced.

It is bizarre that IBM decided to ignore virtualization on X86 platforms. IBM invented virtualization over 30 years ago. To this day IBM's dynamic logical partitioning is probably the most advanced virtualization virtualization technology. DLPAR has the ability to instantiate & load balance new VM's on the fly. OS/2 had highly advanced virtualization back in the day.

I have believed for many years that the TCO is way to high for nework management. Unfortunately Cisco was one of the worst offenders. The Cisco IoS is interface is outdated. Before you had to know what features were available for a particular network hardware you were configuring. Cisco tried on several occasions to come up with good network management. The Cisco works was a klugely bloated application. It is really a shame that Cisco did not focus more on network management when John Chambers was there.

I Google Doc's for most things. I like Google Doc's because it is very easy to start and exit. No need to worry about saving. I use.Libre office for more complex documents occasionally. There needs to be a cloud version of Libre office

Big challenges & opporutnities for Broadcom

There is big challenges & opportunities for Broadcom. VMware is overpriced today and many organizations don't see a good ROI. So Broadcom will have to adjust VMware's pricing model if they hope to gain & retain market share. Now that said I don't think a subscription model is necessarily a bad thing for Vmware. Doing so could potentially callow customers more flexibility to choose the products & features they need. The other challenge is to show companies the value proposition for VMware. The potential is there. But the cost is simply to high for many organizations. Private cloud management is probably the real opportunity for VMware.

WinFS

Bill Gates said that he was disappointed that WinFS never came out. I am fairly surprised and disappointed Bill Gates did not push harder for WinFS.

It's quit bizarre that MS has chosen to used dated hardware on such a leading edge phone......! Personally the sky high price and the lack of 5G makes this phone a no go for myself.

I spoke this person from the Mozilla foundation about 2 years ago. He told me that Mozilla only has 2 developers that work on the mobile version. Personally I use Dolphin browser. Dolphin has been acting up recently so I may switch to another browser.

Hopefully IBM cuts a lot of middle management. IBM has a lot of bureaucracy. I am surprised that IBM made cuts to their services division.

Oracle needs live up to their responsibilities and immdiately resondb and fix the flaws now that they are charging license fees....!!

IBM's Z-series has some huge advantages that no other platform offers today. The Z-series mainframes offers end to end encryption down to the processor level. Z-series is also capable of running 2,000,000 simultaneous docker containers. No other platform has this level of security. IBM is having huge success in the financial sector with the Z-14.

This seems like a good move. But I wonder why IBM waited till now to acquire Red Hat. My own belief is that IBM should have acquired Red Hat years ago. $34 billion is a lot of money to pay. It will be interesting to see what happens in any case.

In my mind Equifax is getting off cheap....!!

My guess is that Linus is to isolated in his work and need to get used to working with other people.

This just goes to show just how paranoid Xi and China's communist party is. There is much more civil discontent than most people are lead to believe.

Personally I wonder Qualcomm is even bothering to talk with Broadcomm. My only guess is that this is due financial diligence to avoid a shareholder lawsuit.

I am disappointed that Trump decided to implement these as blanket tariffs. My own belief is that they should have been targeted tariffs. This smacks of protectionism to me.

IBM has more business and IT capital than any company today. They consultants that have experience various fields. IBM has hired health care professionals or insurance executives for example. While it's true IBM will have to cut back. They key for IBM is reduce personnel on the basis of skills and knowledge as opposed to pure costs to the company. The other thing to remember is that despite all the hype of clouds and there still many companies that don't trust cloud computing and or have no need for it. Even with all the security promises cloud providers make they still cannot guarantee that the data will not be hacked. This is one reason why IBM's Z-14 with their end to end encryption has been so successful.

Hopefully the customer service will get better with the Google Pixel. Customer service seems to be a after thought with the Pixel products. This one reason why I have avoided purchasing a Pixel phone.

Geez what a bunch of crybabies. Qualcomm invented the technology so have the right to set the price and license the technology as they so choose.

I still prefer FF due to because customizable than any browser around. But Mozilla needs to work on solving some persistent problems with FF. Memory is a still a big issue. A easy way to fix this would be include memory free as part of the install or as a recommended addon. The other problem is that there this sites that FF refuses to load. Video often refuses to work with FF as well.

Intel's argument is ludicrous. Intel claims that Qualcomm has undo influence because they own so many patents and IP technology in the mobile market.

These cut backs are fairly small for a company that employees 71,000 people.

I gave up on OS/2 after Serenity Systems mislead people about OS/2. Serenity Systems originally told customers that they had been authorized to make approved code modifications to OS/2 Warp. IBM never granted and permission to do so. Serenity systems was only authorized to provide new drivers and a new install process I believe.

OS/2 had a lot of promise and it might have overtaken Windows if the marketing was better. OS/2 was way ahead in client server technology back in the Win/95, 98 days. The other problem is that IBM mishandled the IP rights to OS/2. I never understood why IBM did not hire MS as contractor to write the code for OS/2. MS used some of IBM OS/2 code and merged it with the Windows code. MS then claimed it then owned the rights to the code.

Today OS/2 is irrelevant as OS.

Pixel updates ends after 2 years is ridiculous

While I agree keeping Android phones is a good step. Why are they doing this while limiting Pixel updates to 2 years after the phone has come out.

Must be a better way

Seems like there must be a way to us AI flag potentially violent videos. 3000 is a awful lot of employees and surely they will get bored fast.