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Actually, it is the smaller and midsized companies who benefit from shared food delivery services. The big ones can run it themselves and not have to pay the mi
by bastijn 9y ago
Actually, it is the smaller and midsized companies who benefit from shared food delivery services. The big ones can run it themselves and not have to pay the middleman. (Though in the end they will join the service again as it is not only a service to deliver food but also to index restaurants and order. So to have people pick your restaurant for delivery you have to join the google of food. But that is not important here.)
Point being, enterprises happily run this locally. Either as/on their cloud on premise or on their servers. Just for our team we have 300 something servers running multiple VMs. I can easily spend a few on a solution like this to do data analysis on our repos. We already have a systems team doing only tooling (build servers, jenkins, test systems, regression dashboards etc.). This would be just another thing for their list.
Having our code leave or accessed outside our premise / DMZ is much, much harder. That would pull in some very heavy discussions with the 3rd party and our legal department.
- tensor 9y agoIt's not just having the servers, but also the expertise and domain knowledge. Putting aside application specific knowledge (e.g. running SAS or the like), not all large companies have in-house expertise that can administer a Linux virtual machine. In my experience, it's not surprising to find IT departments that don't even know about ssh. Remember, there are more enterprises than technology enterprises. Finance, audit, law firms, oil and gas, insurance, these places often don't have the in-house experience to run non-Windows tech stacks.
- bastijn 9y agoBut would those companies need this service? I can hardly inagine they do.