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Google should just buy Digital Ocean and build their cloud around that. I know it's not on the same level of sophistication as their existing offerings but who
by cenal 11y ago
Google should just buy Digital Ocean and build their cloud around that. I know it's not on the same level of sophistication as their existing offerings but who cares? It's so affordable and easy to get up and running with that it's easily the best acquisition target for them.
- powera 11y agoWhat would this get Google other than some good publicity on Hacker News? Do they have a customer base that would use other Google Cloud offerings?
- nodesocket 11y agoKnow your market! DigitalOcean users are not likely to pay Google Compute prices, and understand the power of the platform.
- Johnny555 11y agoWho cares about the level of sophistication? Customers do. DO has a nice product for relatively unsophisticated users that just want to build a website. But when you want to move a large application that spans hundreds or even thousands of servers and scales up and down to meet demand, you're not going to run it on an unsophisticated provider. You're going to want a provider with rich service API's and enough capacity to let you scale your infrastructure as needed. Most of DO's customers are not in the target market for AWS or GCE - while those users provide decent revenue from a small amount of compute resources, Google and Amazon are looking for the larger corporate customers that are willing to purchase thousands of compute units and terabytes (or petabytes) of storage.
- bossx 11y agoHave you used Google Cloud developer console recently? I would argue it's as simple as DO, and maybe even easier.
- eitally 11y agoI think it's way more impactful for them to hire Diane Greene to run their cloud & infrastructure business units that it would be to make any external tech purchase.