Category: presspass

  • Training for Legacy – Press Pass

    Training for Legacy – Press Pass Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson asked me recently for advice on working with legacy applications. Check out her piece on it. Here’s the full reply I sent to her in email: Her topics: – The steps someone could take to get themselves up to speed on their employer’s legacy software. –…

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  • DevOps, monolithic architectures, craftsmanship – an unpublished interview

    I’m too wordy when I reply to reporters. This is mostly true everywhere I produce content. I don’t like trite, simple answers. Brevity and clarity makes me suspicious, especially on topics I know well. As a consequence, I don’t think this interview by email was ever published. What’s a DevOps advocate? If you mean what…

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  • Enterprise DevOps interview with iThome Weekly

    A little while back I did an email interview with Ray Wang from iThome Weekly, in Taiwan. It’s a little piece about DevOps getting more and more into the enterprise. To read the Google, robot translation, it looks like I did some things “single-handedly,” where in fact I was one of many hands. As always,…

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  • Embedding OpenStack in Solaris – Press Pass

    Oracle announced that it’s putting OpenStack into Solaris, which is good fun. James Niccolai asked for my thoughts on the topic for his story. I hadn’t been briefed, so it was just speculation, but here’s the full text of what I sent over: Solaris was always – and no doubt still is – technically advanced.…

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  • Infor ERP moving products to AWS – Press Pass

    A few weeks ago, I talked with Chris Kanaracus for his story on Infor moving parts of their application portfolio to Amazon Web Services. Chris said this looked like a pretty strong endorsement for using AWS, and asked for my thoughts, which were: Yes, this a nice vote a confidence for AWS. However, I think…

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  • VMware and Citrix team-up with Google Chromebooks to run Windows apps – Press Pass

    I spoke with a couple of reporters earlier this week on the partnerships between Google and VMware and Google and Citrix around supporting Windows XP on Chromebooks. VMware has $200 off Chromebook discount for business buyers, and Citrix has a discount as well. Both are deep into vying with each other around the Desktop-as-a-Service market…

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