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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	6 Std.
	Antwort an @gdekhayser @maliknir busystock.com/i.php?s=CSCO makes it look like Cisco had zero earnings from 1998 until 2005. Maybe they did run at a loss for the first few years of hype growth !?
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	7 Std.
	Antwort an @brynnobrien Especially when pontificating 😀. I don’t mind being corrected, people who refuse to be wrong show inflexibility of mind, fragile egos and an inability to adapt to change .. I tell myself that evolutionary forces will sort them out eventually
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	7 Std.
	Antwort an @brynnobrien So you did, I stand corrected.. I read it as CO2 ... derp
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	7 Std.
	Antwort an @maliknir @gdekhayser I would also argue that if running at a loss for a few years post IPO had been an option for IBM EMC and Netapp while they invested into a hyper growth market, they would have done so. Cisco in the other hand, much like VMware is a strange and wonderful beast
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	7 Std.
	Antwort an @maliknir @gdekhayser Ok, playing devils advocate here, I posit that the all flash array market was as distinct a segment as open systems or network attach storage were for EMC or netapp, and IBMs original market was fiercely defended by NCR (from which they spawned)
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	7 Std.
	Antwort an @brynnobrien Arguably eliminating CH3 production from ruminants and LNG/petroleum production would have a similar effect to halting CO2 increases, I’m not arguing we shouldn’t reduce CO2, but let’s not demonise a single causative factor.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	7 Std.
	Antwort an @gdekhayser @maliknir IBM until the 80s and Cisco come to mind, and within their respective niches early EMC and Netapp, though neither were as dominant as the first two. iPhones and amazon might also count but iPhones are more about the App Store / iTunes than the actual hardware.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	9 Std.
	Antwort an @maliknir On the other hand their core tech is pretty good, and they’ve got some great people, but if money starts getting expensive the honeymoon of growth won’t wash with the street and they’re going to want to see that bottom line improve, sooner rather than later
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	9 Std.
	Antwort an @maliknir Their core value prop of sales growth driven by selling simplicity and performance is being undermined by tech trends toward HCI and PMEM on prem, and they have no real cloud play. Flash blade isn’t opening up markets with near term growth and they keep missing roadmap promises
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	11 Std.
	Antwort an @AbeBeeEeeC @MattSzalkowski @ABC The barrel doesn’t look quite right for an AK, almost like it’s missing the extra barrel from gas return where the shoulder strap attaches, so it could well be an SKS.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	12 Std.
	Antwort an @AbeBeeEeeC @MattSzalkowski @ABC More likely to be stolen disabled collectors piece, functioning AK's have never been legal for private ownership, or used by local armed forces. One estimate suggests there may be "thousands" of them in Oz, though I doubt its anywhere close to that theage.com.au/national/victo…
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	15 Std.
	Antwort an @AbeBeeEeeC @ABC If only #trolleyman had been there to stop them ... the only thing that stops a bad man with a gun (or a kife, or a car full of explosives) is a good man with a trolley.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	16 Std.
	Antwort an @ABC They guys were arrested last night, having people running around with things that look like AK-47's gets noticed down here. Nobody shot, nobody dead, suspects identified and arrested within a few hours .. not sure why a US news outlet would be publishing this now.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	17 Std.
	Antwort an @Hairtrigga @Snoodlum I broadly agree with the ethical portion, especially when we seek to pick out the motes in our bothers eye, but every country faces it's own unique challenges in transition, political, technical, geographic etc, that shouldn't mean we give people a free pass on stuff they can do.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	17 Std.
	Antwort an @kevinclosson I'm thinking specifically of NetApp Cloud Volumes aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp… but more broadly any decent quality NFSv3 implementation that you can attach to the VPC.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	19 Std.
	Antwort an @jturner_au Someone else (I wish I could remember who) pointed out our political discourse is completely divorced from socratic debate, and now runs on a platform designed for viral advertising and how the resulting herd behaviour is both unfortunate, predictable, and exploitable.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	19 Std.
	@kevinclosson Is there any good reason why dNFS wouldn't work on Oracle running in AWS ? #AskingForAFriend
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	22 Std.
	Antwort an @Hairtrigga @Snoodlum Large parts of sub-Saharan Africa on the other hand probably needs a completely different approach, arguably having some level of political stability would be a good starting point, but from an industry POV they will probably emulate China rather than us.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	22 Std.
	Antwort an @Hairtrigga @Snoodlum I spend a reasonable amount of my time in both China and India, both of which have highly industrialised economies the capital, and organisational capability, and scale to build world class infrastructure. In many cases they put Oz to shame. I wouldn’t underestimate them.
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	John Martin @JohnMartinIT	14. Nov.
	Antwort an @sbxr @simonahac FYI here is a Link to the source of the data I used for those assertions, happy to see data that supports a counter argument chinadialogue.net/blog/10761-Chi…
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