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TL;DR: The answer is an astounding NO.

Storage vendors are rolling their hands in delight while systems administrators, particularly backup admins are cringing at the thought.

“Small government” has been reduced to “select few government”.

Now you got me thinking anal sex with a woman might be the only legal act.

Should have stuck to being a baseball icon and announcer, he’s not good for anything else.

Eric and Trump Jr shiver at the thought.

Third Pale of Hell, second door to your right, please roll for initiative.

“Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers are already in Canada and probably Mexico waiting for orders to invade,” she wrote on January 8, 2021.

As married-in Mexican, I’m pretty sure that Chinese soldiers wouldn’t last a week in Mexico without getting rolled by the cartels, then dumped in a ditch or chased home lol.

Yeah, we dumped Cisco for Aruba two years ago. Completely replaced the entire company core network infra. No major complaints.

On the Enterprise side of things, I was a huge VCE fan pre-Dell days. Only thing close to that now is Pure Flashstack, which isn’t bad, just pricey. I’m just not a Dell fan, Michael Dell is a fuck-whit.

Comparing my experience with Cisco B and C Class, HPE DL and Dell PE server experience over the past 20 years:

Cisco: Expensive, Good support/service during lifetime of product, excellent management tools w/o buying additional lics, reliable, but eosl/eol is short and poorly supportable after.

DELL: Just retired some 30 of their servers and storage. No regrets. Expensive, horrible support, licensing is a nightmare, but e360 and online tools were better than others. EOL/EOSL support is okay for a max of 2 yrs afterwards.

HPE: Just deployed 20 DL380G10+, Cheaper than other 2, licensing is a pita, support is meh, but InfoSight and support costs are cheap and there’s good support past eol/eosl.

I’ve done the whole white box thing like SuperMicro a number of times and while it is cheaper upfront, it’s a headache over time.

Then there’s California where NEM 3.0 makes it less than worth while to install or upgrade your existing solar installation.

It’s like people hate ads so much they’re willing to change browsers… gasp

Google had a revelation.

Yubikey ftw

Jira/Confluence (Atlassian) out, it was slow anyway. Gitlab onprem solution to replace it. If Gitlab ends up costing too much down the line, OSS gits will work just the same. Atlassian support is horrible anyway.

Then you think about how long ago it was we did all those dl ratios and auto bots promoting sites on UUNET, DALNET or others…