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It’s a multi stage transition, and we are nearing the end of phase 1, rebuild in AWS using equivalent EC2 instances. This is not cheap by any means, but it gets us out of VMware, and also gets us away from our abysmal capacity management problems. Being able to keep up with business growth on-demand is worth the extra cost over the medium term.

Phase 2 is rearchitecting and consolidating our major overlapping LOB applications into fewer, more cloud-native designs. This should reap cost savings eventually.

It’s a multi stage transition, and we are nearing the end of phase 1, rebuild in AWS using equivalent EC2 instances. This is not cheap by any means, but it gets us out of VMware, and also gets us away from our abysmal capacity management problems. Being able to keep up with business growth on-demand is worth the extra cost over the medium term.

Phase 2 is rearchitecting and consolidating our major overlapping LOB applications into fewer, more cloud-native designs. This should reap cost savings eventually.

The is pretty much Broadcom’s MO with purchases like this. Jack up prices to get rid of small customers, milk the huge customers for all they can, don’t spend money on further development.

We saw the writing on the wall with the purchase, got the ball rolling and now are almost done expunging all VMware from our environment. Just in time it seems.

Been running boinc / World Community Grid jobs for like 10+ years straight. Has all sorts of throttling settings, so it’s pretty much set it and forget it, it doesn’t interfere with other apps I run.

I believe is was pulled from service after Spain signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Well, technically it is a solved problem. Spain fielded electronically fused cluster bomblets that were disabled via a drained capacitor if not exploded in 5 minutes. This eliminated the possibility of live duds.

This Espin system has since been removed from service. Not sure if there are any similar system currently in use.

Well, since there are no “degrees” in Celsius measurements, that seems unlikely?

Celsius is the actueal unit of measurement, unlike Farenheit, which is a scale with the units being degrees.