"The Other Orange Box"
Jumpstart Training
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Re: Jumpstart Training
#12I don't have a clear picture what all can be deployed on this... thing. Obviously the basics of a webserver, database, docker containers, etc., but this isn't where the value is. It appears to have a wifi antenna— can it manage a corporate wifi deployment, with RADIUS or whatever? What about LDAP? Samba shares? Can it supply an email/webmail service which I won't have to spend all day setting up? For the stuff config…
The Thing is not for production deployment, it's for training. It's a bunch of compute nodes in a nice roadcase, so that you can experiment in an environment that is: - clean - does not require rackspace in your datacenter - does not require your IT group to deploy it - does not take up machines that your QA group wanted to use - and is a known hardware, network and OS configuration so that the documentation is usefu…
Wish they would have better explained that. Even being quite technical, run a business and use Ubuntu daily, I couldn't figure it out.
Lord have mercy on the poor business person trying to understand the value.
Re: Jumpstart Training
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Thing is not for production deployment, it's for training. It's a bunch of compute nodes in a nice roadcase, so that you can experiment in an environment that is: - clean - does not require rackspace in your datacenter - does not require your IT group to deploy it - does not take up machines that your QA group wanted to use - and is a known hardware, network and OS configuration so that the documentation is usefu…
Wish they would have better explained that. Even being quite technical, run a business and use Ubuntu daily, I couldn't figure it out. Lord have mercy on the poor business person trying to understand the value.
It does say right here it's for training, it's mentioned quite a lot actually.
> Two full days of technical training, covering Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape and OpenStack.
Re: Jumpstart Training
#14This actually looks like a pretty interesting idea. "Turnkey private cloud" might be attractive. Especially if they sell the Open Source/we teach you/you're independent part well. Could potentially sell like hotcakes in Europe if they play the NSA-angle. I can also envision a very sweet secondary market (partner with an open source ERP for example)
Even before the NSA scandal, it struck me as surprising that you don't see Linux distributions actively marketing "open, auditable, buildable" and the related services of training for software auditing.