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That's the life cycle of proprietary stacks - when there's a lot of demand for them they dump resources into adding more and more and cheaper features. Nobody b
by jacobsenscott 8y ago
That's the life cycle of proprietary stacks - when there's a lot of demand for them they dump resources into adding more and more and cheaper features. Nobody believes the party will end. But it always does. AWS is certainly more than 50% through that life cycle of "hot new thing", "stable feature rich thing that will be around forever", "ash heap".
- scarface74 8y agoIf you went by the mantra "No one ever got fired for buying IBM in 1983" and decided to build your product on DB2 and COBOL, you could still get support and new compatible systems 35 years later. If you decided to build your stack on top of MS SQL Server in 1990 you would have still had a relatively painless upgrade path over the years. We can also add products byy Oracle and Adobe.