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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • If you’re running a lab or a small shop any hypervisor can likely do the job. Anything above that VMware’s overall ecosystem is the most robust and well-supported.

    At this point virtualization is a legacy technology. It’s not going to disappear tomorrow but its clock is ticking the same way the clock was ticking for mainframes thirty years ago. Plenty of mainframes still out there but nobody is implementing new. Same can be said for virtualization. It’s a limited market with significantly slowed growth over where it was a decade ago.

    The move to a subscription model will let them squeeze every last dollar out of the technology while they still can.










  • No, it’s not.

    You’re rationale that 8% of 300,000 = 24,000 therefore $2,000/mo., by dumb luck, comes close at 8%.

    • 12% of 300,00 = 36,000/12 = 3,000; actual is $3085/mo
    • 8% of 300,000 = 24,000/12 = 2,000; actual is $2200/mo (not $2025)
    • 4% of 300,000 = 12,000/12= 1,000; actual is $1432/mo
    • 2% of 300,000 = 6,000/12 = 500; actual is $1108/mo
    • 0% of 300,000 = 0/12 = 0; actual is $833/mo

    It’s algebra, not arithmetic.

    P = (r * A) / (1 - (1 + r)^(-n))

    where:

    • P is the monthly payment
    • A is the loan amount
    • r is the monthly interest rate (APR/12)
    • n is the total number of payments