Rackspace goes down
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@EddieJennings said in Rackspace goes down:
@EddieJennings said in Rackspace goes down:
@scottalanmiller said in Rackspace goes down:
@EddieJennings said in Rackspace goes down:
The word "licensing" doesn't appear anywhere on the linked status page.
"The firm later identified the root cause of the networking issues, as being due to a licensing issue with a third party vendor over its cloud balancers."
I'll have to look again when I get home. I search for the text licensing on that page and Firefox found nothing.
Yeah. I thought licensing was also supposed to be mentioned at the link that was posted in the article, which it isn't.
Oh, no, it was the article itself.
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I used the article to reiterate to my superiors that "licensing matters"
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@EddieJennings said in Rackspace goes down:
I used the article to reiterate to my superiors that "licensing matters"
And licensing is a risk, one that needs to be factored in to buying decisions.
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I often point out to people discussion Windows and Linux that they often do a cost comparison and figure that they are pretty close... but leave out licensing which is by far the biggest cost and risk of windows. They forget the time and risk in determining needs, record keeping, upkeep, monitoring, audits, fines, etc.
