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VMware's private cloud control panel software requires flash (or at least the version I was subjected to did) No charts. No fancy graphics. It's all basic crud stuff. And it's all in flash.
It was kind of obvious that HTML was going to take over... Like really obvious.
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Any recommendations for a better alternative?
It's certainly not perfect, but I generally use Morningstar for checking funds and prices. They still use Flash for some parts (like portfolio x-ray), but it's not the needed for the simpler charts.
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If Google cared about Google Finance, they would have done that five years ago (or more). It’s clearly in maintenance mode, with the bare minimum spent on it to keep the lights on but no active development.
Which is potentially why I've heard for years that Yahoo Finance is really good, in fact probably better considering the amount of attention Yahoo Finance gets. Yahoo is still my go to choice. I only use Google when I am looking up stuff from Google's domain and it shows up as an instant answer.
But Yahoo had comparison tools, better option chains, investment challenges, etc.
I got into investing in middle school because of their investment challenge and virtual portfolios.
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And what strikes me as a finance professional is that I can get live stock prices from the free yahoo finance website, whereas my expensive bloomberg terminal only has 15min delayed stock prices...
If you require it surely you can get it if you pay for that?
It's the typical Google development cycle. Build a great product, don't get enough users, engineers lose interest and boom the product is basically sunset. Years later it is either revived or cancelled outright.
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Yahoo Finance
I would never have guessed I would migrate from a google product to a yahoo product. What an odd thing this is.
VMware's private cloud control panel software requires flash (or at least the version I was subjected to did) No charts. No fancy graphics. It's all basic crud stuff. And it's all in flash.
Too bad it's still a "work in progress" and not actually that useful for the more fine-grained/advanced things (like deploying a new VM or template directly from an OVA file).
People are complaining about Flash? I've got quite a few stories from doing integration work with refrigeration systems. Mind you, most of these systems are meant to be used daily by the staff at ordinary grocery stores. - One vendor requires a leaky JRE 1.5 to run their configuration tool, originally written for Windows CE around 2007. You need to keep it inside a VM and disable automatic Java updates. - A newer sys…
The standards for consumer products are different - especially in a case where your website requires a plugin that your own browser has deprecated.
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Why the hell do grocery store refrigerators require a web GUI? The most complicated computer in the whole system should maybe be an 8-bit microcontroller. For massive industrial-scale refrigeration and storage, it might also make sense to add, say, a serial port.
Well, for a fleet of refrigerators, it might be nice to have a place to see data from the entire fleet. Power requirements, temperature, failures or failure indicators, etc. A large supermarket would most likely want something like that. With serial ports, they'd have to design a system themselves, including the boxes to attach to the individual serial ports. Of course, for a technically skilled individual, a serial…
Disclaimer: Our company's main product is used to collect data from refrigeration systems into one vendor-independent, Flash-free web UI. We do pretty much everything ranging from web development to reverse engineering and hardware design.