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Wtf. Ok thanks for posting. I will never use any RedHat product ever again.
The alternative is paying for the software you're using. If you don't want to pay for for-pay software, there's plenty of no-cost Linux distros available.
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I getting it from Jo Beda, the CTO of heptio (now VMWARE). More specifically , from his definition of cloud native. A cloud native system is a system that manage its resources via an API. The vendor locking in this case is the cloud API. I.e. if I want a resource (e.g. a VM) , I need to use the EC2 api. With kubernetes, I write to the kuberentes API which is open source, cloud vendor natural. However, and this the ke…
That seems to be trading one type of lock-in for another. The problem with that approach is that now you have added a highly complex layer into your architecture that you need to maintain, integrate, and secure. I think it more likely that in AI, Amazon and Microsoft will continue to add more powerful cloud services making home-grown kubernetes solutions even less relevant.
An AI service is much more than submitting a CSV file to a cloud and getting a model back, or even a web end point.
You need:
1) watch for changes in the input data.
2) watch for model decay.
3) watch for latency.
4) retrain (preferably automatically).
5) redesign your pipeline and imputation methods when the data changes.
6) watch for problems in the input data during serving
7) Scale out or Scale down.
8) Be optimal with the training resources (for example, train on spot instances).
9) Canary and shadow release of model
10) Data and model versioning.
Not to mention privacy and price.
What happen today is that there are no offering of alternative to the cloud services, so there is no point of reference.
I miss the old IBM Thinkpads; sure, they cost $4,000 during the height of the dot-com boom, but those things were built like tanks. I got a 600X when a dot-com was liquidating its assets for $700 and it was my primary computer for over six years. The newer Thinkpads from Lenovo are more like wannabe Macbooks; I miss batteries you could swap out without opening the computer and Thinkpads you could open without using a…
lol what does that have to do with anything?
The big risk is that IBM drags Redhat down to their level. This wouldn't be unusual, most takeovers fail to deliver shareholder value.
There is nothing to drag. A single server distro is becoming irrelevant as the unit of computation resources is the kubernetes cluster. I.e. all the app see is a set of kubernetes nodes, it does not really care what server disto you are running on.
It's questionable whether this can save them this late in the game, but there's solid seasoning behind it. IBM had few other ways to remain relevant as even crufty enterprise customers will eventually start move forward with containerization of workloads.
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IBM products have no license-checking built in, on purpose. They want you to make more copies than your negotiated license agreement allows. Then, when the auditor comes in, they charge you the sky-high list price, backdating it as well.
I have some employees in India and apparently, Adobe does this there. They will just randomly show up and ask to look at all your systems and see if you are using pirated Adobe products. I have no idea what the laws are there, but the companies they show up at don't even necessarily have any license with Adobe. I can't imagine that is legal in India, but apparently it happens unabetted.
notorious for using disgruntled former employees for starting audits. (they did to my friends company a decade ago and found nothing..)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance)
lots of major companies: (apple/adobe....)
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https://ibmaudits.com/ibm_faq/ Read and despair. tl;dr: They dig around to see you’re paying the correct license fees. They’re common and expensive enough that law firms offer special counseling explicitly for that.
Wtf. Ok thanks for posting. I will never use any RedHat product ever again.
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The problem with these audits is that the exact licensing conditions can be vague, or the audit points to something that is in compliance, but might not be (e.g. you're licensed for 8 cores, but your replacement servers have 12 cores, you still only need the 8 cores so you disable 4 cores in the bios ... well, they will say, for all we know you only disabled those cores when we came to do the audit ... so now you owe…
The IBM licenses are so obtuse that it can only be intentional. This may be outdated, but they used to use these stupid “processor units” that had some loose correlation to CPU performance. If a perfectly well-intentioned systems person moved licensed software to some new server that had half the cores, but was on a newer generation CPU, and didn’t think to ask the lawyers about it, you could get tagged for huge buck…
This is the company who popularised "This page intentionally left blank".
Obtuseness is very much part of their toolkit.
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I have some employees in India and apparently, Adobe does this there. They will just randomly show up and ask to look at all your systems and see if you are using pirated Adobe products. I have no idea what the laws are there, but the companies they show up at don't even necessarily have any license with Adobe. I can't imagine that is legal in India, but apparently it happens unabetted.
welcome to licensing by companies in the Business Software Aliance: notorious for using disgruntled former employees for starting audits. (they did to my friends company a decade ago and found nothing..) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance) lots of major companies: (apple/adobe....) https://www.bsa.org/membership
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Forgive my ignorance,but what is an IBM auditor?
IBM products have no license-checking built in, on purpose. They want you to make more copies than your negotiated license agreement allows. Then, when the auditor comes in, they charge you the sky-high list price, backdating it as well.