A part of me feels sad to see things all going to the cloud. Perhaps one day we won’t even be able to do anything meaningful “locally” on our device if there is no Internet access. Kind of like how we now need electricity and Internet access for our phones at home whereas before with land lines we didn’t need either.
On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 at 20:02, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a lot of customers already there with AVD - which is an > interesting value prop with paying for the resources you use. One of the > surprisingly few clear use cases for cloud elasticity. > > Apparently Windows 11 runs on the Raspberry PI too - interesting $ entry > point for an AVD client if it runs okay. > > David Connors > [email protected] | M +61 417 189 363 > Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors > LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors > > > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 at 19:13, Tom Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Probably the same will be said about Windows in general down the road. >> We’ll probably just have our whole OS somewhere in the cloud and we’ll just >> “remote” to it from our laptops. >> >> On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 17:18, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> SQL Server of Linux has been out for a while and I think it was shortly >>> after it was released that it was shown to outperform on Linux compared to >>> Windows Server on the same hardware. >>> >>> When you're selling cloud like we the $ story for Windows Server isn't >>> great these days ... on a larger virtual machine the Windows Server license >>> is a BIG chunk. >>> >>> With the earnest move to PaaS and SaaS and things like AAD instead of >>> AD, I'm not sure what the value prop of Windows Server is any more - apart >>> from running legacy software. >>> >>> David Connors >>> [email protected] | M +61 417 189 363 >>> Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors >>> LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 17:02, mike smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?na=v&nk=43198-5c996ba084cea&id=1013 >>>> >>>> Are they ceding the server market to Linux? >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>
