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Everyone is going to have a different answer to this (and that answer may evolve as the business does). All business decisions like this are about what level of abstraction is appr…

Yes, but it's much harder to have a legally enforceable SLA with your in-house team and much less fun to threaten to sue yourself. [On the other hand, in-house gives you greater co…

I find it a mixture of frustrating and amusing the services (and software) that sell enterprise level packages but won't accept anything more than "free" from me either personally …

1. Don't expect you'll be cost effective for all potential clients that come to you with this sort of situation. 2. Charge a fixed fee - or even hourly - to figure out wtf is going…

They don't send you stuff every month. You pay a fixed monthly price for a certain number of pages of whatever color/quality you want along with some page count rollover benefits. …

Check the OEM's manual. There are nearly always options in the BIOS to disable. Also Intel's AMT engine rolls by during POST. You can do a to go into the AMT (not BIOS) settings to…

A 2x hourly rate (on a contract basis) only nets out to ~1x FTE over a typical year. (I'm speaking generally of course). The 2x doesn't come for free nor is it just for PTO & healt…

The costs of insurance should be built into your service pricing, just as a traditional employer builds their own employee costs into their pricing.

Well said.

So don't use unofficial ones. :) Plenty of primary sources package their software for Docker these days.

Which HP? There are two now. Enterprise (HPE) or Inc (HPQ)

Hi. That's quite a topic! I've been consulting as my primary source of income going on 13 years consecutively (and consulting / freelancing for far longer than that). I occasionall…

Fair enough. It does mention using them promptly after acquisition. I suppose I overlooked some folks might not realize beans have a shelf life. And not all beans on the shelf are …