Not that I use them anymore anyway, cancelling my old account, but name and shame any companies who conveniently can’t support their free base. Also - it’s VNC. It’s a protocol. There’s a dozen free clients out there.

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    5 months ago

    These companies are so short sighted. They are destroying the ability for the people who might push this software for use in a business environment to use it at home, test it out, learn it. This depletes the pool of experts and supporters that would expand their product’s use over time.

    Microsoft and VMware are the worst offenders at the moment. I feel if you’re a competent on-premises Microsoft sysadmin you’ll have work for the rest of your life, because they aren’t MAKING on-premises Microsoft sysadmins anymore.

    *edited my last sentence for clarity

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
      201·
      5 months ago

      That’s really funny because I am in that position at work where I can make suggestions - or throw down the ban hammer.

      I’ve successfully migrated 3 companies away from Google Cloud because of my horrible personal experience with them. There are so many products I’ve used that have been great and others terrible. You’re exactly right, that’s why individual free tiers existed - to encourage us to try them to push them at work.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        I’m in the same position, and it feels so damn powerful. I’ve convinced an entire university to ditch Ubuntu in favor of Linux Mint, and I’m also advocating for replacing our aging VMWare servers (with a soon-to-expire license) with Proxmox.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      because they aren’t MAKING Microsoft sysadmins anymore.

      I mean as opposed to what? Windows admins probably still make up the lions share of Sysadmins and I don’t really see how that would stop now.

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        5 months ago

        They are making Cloud Microsoft sysadmins, as opposed to on-premises sysadmins. Which means the new crop of admins are just high tier application admins, and have no idea how to manage infrastructure, configure hardware, or actually troubleshoot problems with the application, since they don’t have access to it at that level. All of this makes businesses more and more reliant on the cloud, which is exactly what these providers want.