Then you get one service going down that takes multiple important services with it. Off the top of my head recently
https://www.zdnet.com/article/akamai-apologises-after-outage-left-australias-major-banks-and-airline-systems-offline/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sabre-systems-it-outage-cripples-airline-operations-globally/ On Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 20:53 Tom Rutter <therut...@gmail.com> wrote: > A part of me feels sad to see things all going to the cloud. Perhaps one > day we won’t even be able to do anything meaningful “locally” on our device > if there is no Internet access. Kind of like how we now need electricity > and Internet access for our phones at home whereas before with land lines > we didn’t need either. > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 at 20:02, David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: > >> We have a lot of customers already there with AVD - which is an >> interesting value prop with paying for the resources you use. One of the >> surprisingly few clear use cases for cloud elasticity. >> >> Apparently Windows 11 runs on the Raspberry PI too - interesting $ entry >> point for an AVD client if it runs okay. >> >> David Connors >> da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 >> Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors >> LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors >> >> >> >> On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 at 19:13, Tom Rutter <therut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Probably the same will be said about Windows in general down the road. >>> We’ll probably just have our whole OS somewhere in the cloud and we’ll just >>> “remote” to it from our laptops. >>> >>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 17:18, David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: >>> >>>> SQL Server of Linux has been out for a while and I think it was shortly >>>> after it was released that it was shown to outperform on Linux compared to >>>> Windows Server on the same hardware. >>>> >>>> When you're selling cloud like we the $ story for Windows Server isn't >>>> great these days ... on a larger virtual machine the Windows Server license >>>> is a BIG chunk. >>>> >>>> With the earnest move to PaaS and SaaS and things like AAD instead of >>>> AD, I'm not sure what the value prop of Windows Server is any more - apart >>>> from running legacy software. >>>> >>>> David Connors >>>> da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 >>>> Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors >>>> LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 17:02, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?na=v&nk=43198-5c996ba084cea&id=1013 >>>>> >>>>> Are they ceding the server market to Linux? >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>
