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It is absolutely possible to build a stellar internal alternative to Google's offerings in 5 years with 2 billion dollars. edit: I should point out that this d
by carlisle_ 10y ago
It is absolutely possible to build a stellar internal alternative to Google's offerings in 5 years with 2 billion dollars.
edit: I should point out that this doesn't account for ramp-up. It would obviously take awhile before things would be to a point where it would be even comparable.
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- doubleorseven 10y agoJust to clarify your answer, here is another thing Google won't tell you: once you build yourself in their cloud you will have to find something else to do with all the time you used to spend on latency.
- brandon272 10y agoWhy won't Google tell you that?
- F_J_H 10y agoBut by the time you matched them, they likely would have moved way beyond, with all kinds of new features...
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- scarmig 10y agoOracle is spending way more than 2 billion dollars on its cloud team in an attempt to catch up to AWS, GCP, and Azure. Would you consider Oracle's cloud endeavor a fair test of how able a company is to reproduce GCP's offering with a fistful of money?
- throwaway2048 10y agoOracle is offering external services, that is a huge differentiating factor
- beamatronic 10y agoWhat I can't figure out is why Oracle didn't start down this road 10-20 years ago. They more than anyone should have some ideas about scaling infrastructure for databases.
- dreamfactory2 10y agosales led, not strategic, and it would have cannibalised their existing money printing machine. imagine if they started offering their customers PAYG elastic accounts rather than multi year mega provisioning deals - their numbers would have been destroyed