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reading that article made blood come out my ears

You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant, twerp, scumbag, fark-face, dickhead, article!

somedude210: I interned at EMC last summer. Greenplum machines were just being sold and whatnot. Looking at the specs, it was a hell of a machine. Strictly for data crunching but the hardware involved was incredibly powerful. Although, I was pretty sure that EMC is already a major player in the cloud computing world

when the first greenplums went into a lab, they had to install an extra set of vents and dedicated AC to keep them from overheating. they are beastly.

EMC is a player in the "cloud" world in that they sell the hardware. They don't offer much in the way of a "EMC cloud service" for an end user, which makes sense since its not really their strength

tlchwi02: reading that article made blood pudding come out my ears

FTFY.

Wow, the register went an entire science article without saying "boffin" once.

somedude210: really? I thought at EMC world, they announced that they were pushing for cloud computing, not just in hardware, but client-side software too. They don't make it, but they service it.

yeah they love their buzzwords. I guess arguably they bought some companies that are client side like mozy and greenplum.

J. Frank Parnell: Wow, the register went an entire science article without saying "boffin" once.

It's because they all died. You know, to bring us this information.

We were considering Greenplum but decided to go with Asterdata instead. The upcoming integration with Teradata (who bought them) is too good to pass up. There's way more TD expertise out in the real world, and many of those professionals are adding on AD experience as time goes by. Try to find a Greenplum expert who is actually an expert and/or charges less than $250/hr plus per-diem plus travel expenses. Makes me want to cry. I'd go get to be a Greenplum expert, but by the time I can manage it, they will be a dime a dozen. I just can't chase buzzwords like I used to when I was 20 years younger and 40 pounds lighter.

British like typing detected.

Type Colour to prove your American.

fakeedit: Bollocks.

*is depressed that he understands all of that, and is getting a kick...*

sarah_t_s: British like typing detected.

Type Colour to prove your American.

fakeedit: Bollocks.

Type you're to prove your a chav.

Oh god the AFE (Acronyms For Everything) school of technology product naming is colliding with the school of giving technology silly nonsense names like "Hadoop" and "Flizmo"!

somedude210: no no, they love their acronyms. Remember that scene from "Good Morning, Vietnam"? A normal conversation was basically that, but they actually managed to have acronyms for their acronyms. It was like a bad SNL joke

it wouldn't be that bad if the freaking acronyms didn't also require context, since in many cases they re-use acronyms and the only way you can figure out what the reference is would be to analyze the sentence and figure it out from context. and even then, nodding and smiling is still the best bet

SomethingToDo: sarah_t_s: British like typing detected.

Type Colour to prove your American.

fakeedit: Bollocks.

Type you're to prove your a chav.

Impossible as chavs have no brain and therefor can't type let alone string together, roughly, the right words.

That article looked to be almost written in Tech-noese, not British. The only British slang in there was "iron".