@travisdh1 said in The Register, NetApp and IDC Lose About All Credibility with This:

@scottalanmiller said in The Register, NetApp and IDC Lose About All Credibility with This:

I posted about their lack of credibility on The Register directly, but it has no appeared yet. I no longer accept quoting The Register as a valid reference to anything. Unless they post a retraction, I can't take them seriously in any context again. This isn't a simple mistake, this is a travesty of reporting and unprofessionalism. I'm not sure which would be worse, if the author was actually this technically inept and reported on tech anyway, or if he was paid off to specifically try to mislead his readers. And how did any editor let this get onto the website?

Just now reaching that conclusion? I wondered when you'd see the light with them.

I've not found them pulling this kind of stuff in the past. Certainly not to this degree!

ComputerWeekly talks about how the mainframe (circa 1960) was the first hyperconverged design...

http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Tips-for-buying-hyper-converged-systems

@s.hackleman said in The Price Is Right:

@scottalanmiller said in The Price Is Right:

@s.hackleman said in The Price Is Right:

2 things drive me away from a vendor faster than anything. 1. If they make it hard for me to give them money. Require a PO signed and faxed over approving the...NOPE. I will find a new solution.

Just take a CC and you are off and running!

Tried to buy a product direct from VMWare once after they bought Shavlik. So I contacted them, and tried to give them money. It took a week, and 3 faxes... yes fax after 2010. I had to write my CC number on paper and fax it to them then wait for them to email me my software. I haven't spent a dollar with them since.

Wow.