Ask HN: Why is there no mention of VxRail on HN?

  • Largely as a function of demographics, HN tends to discuss technologies which are either big with the Cool Kids in Silicon Valley (e.g. Docker), the publicly-discussable inventions of AppAmaGooBookSoft (e.g. Kubernetes), and things that small tech-forward businesses worldwide would reasonably choose to adopt (e.g. PHP/MySQL).

    The significant parts of technology which the userbase doesn't cover nearly so much are Big Freaking Enterprises (Oracle databases, SAP, etc) and technologies primarily used in non-tech-forward companies (e.g. some parts of the Microsoft stack).

    If you think the view might be a little lopsided, my best advice is "be the change you want to see in it."

  • Besides what patio11 said, I don't know how much there is to discuss about that kind of stuff. You pay a ton of money, they handhold you to install/operate it, and over time you come to realize that it isn't as great as they promised. And if you criticize it in public the vendor may reduce your discount.