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They're not competing, they're cooperatively building a potemkin village so that they have a cloud story to tell Wall Street and the tech press. AWS is steamrol
by alrs 11y ago
They're not competing, they're cooperatively building a potemkin village so that they have a cloud story to tell Wall Street and the tech press. AWS is steamrollering everyone, but most of them incorrectly imagine AWS to be a mashup between VMware and a payday lender scam. They've been content to put people on stage every six months to peddle this-actually-works happy-talk.
Dell tells the story. February 5, 2013: Dell announces plans to go private. May 20, 2013: Dell abandons Openstack.
- sinxoveretothex 11y agoDell abandoned Openstack in May 2013? Better tell ComputerWorldUK then, they seem out of date by 9 months because they linked me to this story from December 2013: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-vendors/dell-and-red-hat-team-to-sell-enterprise-openstack-3493664/ http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-vendors/dell-and-red-...
- alrs 11y agohttps://gigaom.com/2013/05/20/dells-revised-strategy-steps-back-from-openstack-public-cloud-spotlights-enstratius/ https://gigaom.com/2013/05/20/dells-revised-strategy-steps-b...