The swinging axe

[lonestar2000]

That said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.

I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!

[kewp]

No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

Google has proven you wrong many times over.

[kewp]

No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

Google has proven you wrong many times over.

[kewp]

No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

Google has proven you wrong many times over.

[kewp]

No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

Google has proven you wrong many times over.

[kewp]

No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.

Google has proven you wrong many times over.

[Tuba]

I heard over the weekend a rumor that HP in Rancho Bernardo has some major layoffs coming. Looks like they have recently cut in Oregon and Idaho. If this is true, I wander how this will effect inventory in RB/4s for those employees that own.

[Tuba]

I heard over the weekend a rumor that HP in Rancho Bernardo has some major layoffs coming. Looks like they have recently cut in Oregon and Idaho. If this is true, I wander how this will effect inventory in RB/4s for those employees that own.

[Tuba]

I heard over the weekend a rumor that HP in Rancho Bernardo has some major layoffs coming. Looks like they have recently cut in Oregon and Idaho. If this is true, I wander how this will effect inventory in RB/4s for those employees that own.

[Tuba]

I heard over the weekend a rumor that HP in Rancho Bernardo has some major layoffs coming. Looks like they have recently cut in Oregon and Idaho. If this is true, I wander how this will effect inventory in RB/4s for those employees that own.

[Tuba]

I heard over the weekend a rumor that HP in Rancho Bernardo has some major layoffs coming. Looks like they have recently cut in Oregon and Idaho. If this is true, I wander how this will effect inventory in RB/4s for those employees that own.

[Coronita]

Hp’s axe has been swinging for some time now. Ever since Hurd took the helm. Good for shareholders, bad for employees, as some will probably say. Most of the printer R&D is in china now.

Good news is that friends have said there are quite a few “printer” startups in S.D. Not sure why there would be so many printer startups, but oh well, I have to take what they say to be accurate (not in my line of work).

I also heard the ax feel at Kodak recently, though some folks are getting a pretty hefty severance.

The ax also fell at Nextwave.

The ax also sort of fell at Intuit (small axe, i think)

And the ax also feel at BAE systems.

Good news though is it seems like folks I know that got impacted were able to find something pretty quickly, except the folks that are in senior managers/directors/vp’s. Guess in downsizing times, it’s sort of better to be a technical grunt than a non-technical “people manager”.

I think for example, websense is hiring, and it seems like hiring is picking up at Nokia (sort of recovering).

On the other hand I “heard” Broadcom isn’t doing too well (San Diego office). I heard they’re need to find a customer for their WCDMA chip or else (and you can speculate what the “or else”) means.

[Coronita]

Hp’s axe has been swinging for some time now. Ever since Hurd took the helm. Good for shareholders, bad for employees, as some will probably say. Most of the printer R&D is in china now.

Good news is that friends have said there are quite a few “printer” startups in S.D. Not sure why there would be so many printer startups, but oh well, I have to take what they say to be accurate (not in my line of work).

I also heard the ax feel at Kodak recently, though some folks are getting a pretty hefty severance.

The ax also fell at Nextwave.

The ax also sort of fell at Intuit (small axe, i think)

And the ax also feel at BAE systems.

Good news though is it seems like folks I know that got impacted were able to find something pretty quickly, except the folks that are in senior managers/directors/vp’s. Guess in downsizing times, it’s sort of better to be a technical grunt than a non-technical “people manager”.

I think for example, websense is hiring, and it seems like hiring is picking up at Nokia (sort of recovering).

On the other hand I “heard” Broadcom isn’t doing too well (San Diego office). I heard they’re need to find a customer for their WCDMA chip or else (and you can speculate what the “or else”) means.

[Coronita]

Hp’s axe has been swinging for some time now. Ever since Hurd took the helm. Good for shareholders, bad for employees, as some will probably say. Most of the printer R&D is in china now.

Good news is that friends have said there are quite a few “printer” startups in S.D. Not sure why there would be so many printer startups, but oh well, I have to take what they say to be accurate (not in my line of work).

I also heard the ax feel at Kodak recently, though some folks are getting a pretty hefty severance.

The ax also fell at Nextwave.

The ax also sort of fell at Intuit (small axe, i think)

And the ax also feel at BAE systems.

Good news though is it seems like folks I know that got impacted were able to find something pretty quickly, except the folks that are in senior managers/directors/vp’s. Guess in downsizing times, it’s sort of better to be a technical grunt than a non-technical “people manager”.

I think for example, websense is hiring, and it seems like hiring is picking up at Nokia (sort of recovering).

On the other hand I “heard” Broadcom isn’t doing too well (San Diego office). I heard they’re need to find a customer for their WCDMA chip or else (and you can speculate what the “or else”) means.

[Coronita]

Hp’s axe has been swinging for some time now. Ever since Hurd took the helm. Good for shareholders, bad for employees, as some will probably say. Most of the printer R&D is in china now.

Good news is that friends have said there are quite a few “printer” startups in S.D. Not sure why there would be so many printer startups, but oh well, I have to take what they say to be accurate (not in my line of work).

I also heard the ax feel at Kodak recently, though some folks are getting a pretty hefty severance.

The ax also fell at Nextwave.

The ax also sort of fell at Intuit (small axe, i think)

And the ax also feel at BAE systems.

Good news though is it seems like folks I know that got impacted were able to find something pretty quickly, except the folks that are in senior managers/directors/vp’s. Guess in downsizing times, it’s sort of better to be a technical grunt than a non-technical “people manager”.

I think for example, websense is hiring, and it seems like hiring is picking up at Nokia (sort of recovering).

On the other hand I “heard” Broadcom isn’t doing too well (San Diego office). I heard they’re need to find a customer for their WCDMA chip or else (and you can speculate what the “or else”) means.

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