"The COTS industry is under an anti-commercial attack". Oh no, not the COTS industry!
> In my experience, the most technologically savvy F100's are all VERY familiar with utilizing in-house dev, and as recent releases from AWS/Azure might suggest (SQL Server on linux, Aurora support for postgres/mysql, etc) OSS is a key part of this as well.
Ding ding ding fries are done! Oracle is deeply concerned with losing customers to PaaS and Saas providers. Part of Oracle's current model is to push its mixed and private cloud offerings for their customers--AWS and Azure have a huge share of that market already.
It's Oracle, though, and they have a huge presence in the gov't sector... They're trying to reclaim that as much as possible by moving in on the Trump Administration's transparent give-aways to favored parties.
1. I work in a backwards enterprise shop where "no one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" and it would be easier (read as "possible) to get IT here to support it than Postgres. (That said, they do support Mongo internally but won't admit that to software teams)
2. It's much cheaper than Oracle, which is the other "enterprise" database where it's easier to get an install done
The thing I find crazy is that in 2017 $20M movies with B-list names are getting picked up as "independent". Ridley Scott's name shows up on IFC movies now; It Follows had an excellent ROI compared to most "blockbuster"; Get Out was a sold-out hit with audiences and critics... but it's all just a blip compared to the latest Transformers or DC or Marvel franchise shit-show.
A few millenia from now archaelogists and historians will be pontificating about Hollywood the way we do about the Pyramids.
I heard some scuttlebutt about two years ago after Oracle got rid of some Java people that Oracle had wanted to leverage Java-as-a-Service as a cloud product, sort of like Google Compute, but just never managed to get there... The Sun acquisition, someone told me, "was a hardware acquisition". With SPARC/Solaris dead, Sun staff gone and the lawsuits against Google over Java faltering Oracle has sucked the last marrow out of the bones and is just casting them off now.
When i read about the "hardware integration" of OSX/macOS/whatever I really have to wonder.
Power 32 bit is dead. Apple never ventured into other architectures. macOS (and OSX 10.whatever plus since the mid 2000s) are running on x86 and stumbling towards ARM; iOS runs on ARM. It's still commodity hardware, just like Windows and Linux.
I understand that Apple supports a much smaller set of hardware and drivers, but in my mind it's not really 'integration' the way, say, dinosaurs like SPARC + Solaris or POWER virtualization under AIX is integrated hardware with software. I'm really just being cranky here and splitting hairs.
Bourgeois law in its wisdom protects individual property owners from their mistakes, unless they affect owners of larger property... that said, Equifax may have just fucked over the entire retail/consumer credit industry in the US, so the hammer may very well fall on them. We might get some of those banker perp-walks everyone loves.
But with the current administration as well as Congress (we're likely to see a Federal gov't shutdown over the budget even though the Republicans control the legislature and White House), I wouldn't anticipate seeing any regulation down the pike because of this.
They mention the Struts vuln, but not which one... did an attacker access the info directly via a naive attack, or was this a campaign? Having worked on Enterprise-Ready(tm) systems I wouldn't be surprised if Equifax had an unsegmented network...
To Verizon, yes, but who said there isn't a secondary market for that information? I'm reminded of how Facebook is a net buyer of information from Oracle: there's a thriving resale market.
This isn't true. Even 10 years ago it was pretty normal for litigation involving the SEC to routinely have half a million or more hard copy pages shipping between law firms and the gov't, and 10 years ago about half of all documents that printing and scanning vendors were handling in discovery were paper. The American legal system and US-based law firms are notorious for that sort of thing. See also Iron Mountain.
Or conversely big players will pony up for larger operations to exploit marginal inefficiencies and other economies of scale, which is what seems to be happening.
Additionally you're assuming the only motive behind mining bitcoin is the value of bitcoin, effectively ignoring realities like, e.g., that entities use it to avoid capital flight regulations.
I'll throw in my 2 cents and say I've worked in "open" floorplans I didn't mind--but these were always at on ghost-town-empty offices for companies that were living on investor life support in spaces that could have housed 3x more people without being crowded
"Buy don't build" becoming such an embedded piece of wisdom that there are literally a half-dozen COTS appliances that do the same thing, but not inventorying them, to the point that you might have just one or more likely zero people using them. Literally no one watches our DLP tool, but we keep paying for it.
It's basically a field day for consultants and for appliance vendors. I'm not a huge fan of NIH but it's really demoralizing to see money get spent on toys that immediately get locked up in the attic.
> Corporate IT - which is now it's own behemoth in most modern organizations. IMHO it's actively preventing any work getting done
I will co-sign to this every day of the week and twice on sundays. In our org chart, developers are not "IT" and getting nearly anything done that requires involvement from IT borders on impossible.
I honestly will probably never work for this sort of Microsoft/Oracle/IBM shop ever again unless I get a blood promise I can use a Mac or Linux workstation, get on-demand development VM creation, and have absolutely 0 Oracle product I'm required to integrate with.
The org I work at is so old that it still has groups with "Wintel" in their names, but the UNIX guys (the majority of our non-windoze stuff is AIX) aren't any better. It literally feels like I'm in a time warp back in the 1990s.
Some horror stories:
- having a systems engineer tell me to put in a ticket for the purpose of making a phone call to discuss something that had no pending action needed on his part
- having a DBA tell me the same thing
- having a DBA not know how to turn on query logging
- getting told we had to put together a hardware acquisition plan to do an in-place upgrade of database modules
- having a ticket to get log rotation turned on ignored for months and then told (when logs filled up the disk) that they'd have to turn off the service
- tediously going through change control to alter permissions, elevation rights, etc., only to have "implemented" changes mysteriously disappear the next time security patches were applied
- requesting and getting access to some very nice and expensive commercial applications only to be told that our use case was unsupported
- a half-dozen vendors' antivirus clients on windows machines
- unplanned outages during non-brownout/storm conditions corrupting databases
Ironically enough, some of the PMs (who are generally non-technical) we've talked to in IT literally complain about the exact same sort of problems.
The upside is I can take two or three hour lunch breaks whenever I have to wait on these guys, which is a couple times a week.