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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.
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#SPAIN: A 5.4 magnitude earthquake jolted Madrid today.
#SOUTH SUDAN: 89 young boys have been abducted while sitting their exams
#MIDDLE EAST: A British soldier who went to Syria to fight Islamic State militants has been found and returned to his unit.
#FLORIDA: The birthday of a 6-year-old boy with mild autism was saved by his community after no one turned up to his party.
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A video of a Cork barman singing while pulling pints is going viral…and they say men can’t multitask! [DailyEdge]
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Global tech companies are always hiring and firing, it’s the nature of the business. Things change so fast that a strategy which seemed sound a year ago may be obsolete today, necessitating downsizing in some functional areas and hiring in others.
@John D: a growing business needs to downsize? Wrong. Cut backs equal more profit.
@Shane Kenny: who uses Microsoft products these days ?
@Boganity: Lots. Businesses are huge consumers of Microsoft’s on-premises and cloud services, and the latter is growing at a huge pace. MS is letting Apple and Google have the mobile handset … the stuff that powers them is more and more likely to reside in Microsoft’s data centers, and the comms/collaboration/data of businesses are more than likely in their data centers too. Where you and I store our tiny photo collections and what brand of phone we use is irrelevant in the grand scale of things.
@Aidan Finn: Actually you will find the stuff that powers (or empowers) them is decidely not in MS datacenters. AWS is miles ahead for cloud based and SAAS systems with their own infrastructure will be predominantly linux based.
They’ve just invested a huge amount on a new campus in leopardstown Dublin. And most large tech companies operating in Europe have a decent portion of their sales hub here because of the availability of multilingual degree educated people. Irish MS jobs won’t suffer a huge amount.
(Cont’d) In the medium term
“refocuses its sales force on making Microsoft a pivotal part of businesses relying on cloud computing”
Surely after they bought and killed Nokia, failing with mobile system who can’t even open youtube videos. Surely with Windows 8 and 10 which made lot of people move to Apple instead of learning new systems from the scratch. Surely with Linked in which they turn into internal corporational tool not to use by average people. Big corporations is their last resort.
@cortisola: a lot of surely’s there, surely.
It’s about half and half really with MS and Unix/Linux.
VM’s from MS are still ahead because applications are still ahead on MS servers.
Linux is coming up fast though.
The lack of a good GUI is holding Linux back.
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