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I'm certainly with you on The Cloud. I've been expecting a backlash for a while, but not much sign of it so far. A big monthly bill from $CLOUD_VENDOR_OF_CHOI

by matfil 8y ago

I'm certainly with you on The Cloud. I've been expecting a backlash for a while, but not much sign of it so far. A big monthly bill from $CLOUD_VENDOR_OF_CHOICE seems to have become this century's equivalent of "nobody gets fired for buying IBM". Makes me think: a few years ago, there was some or other beer in the UK that was (heavily) advertised with the slogan "reassuringly expensive". The Cloud vendors (perhaps AWS in particular) seem to be going down that path a bit. Very interesting to juxtapose the reluctance to pay for software with an apparent eagerness to pay for Cloud services.

geocar 8y ago
Stella! And then everyone started calling it "wife beater", because whilst it was slightly more expensive, it had a higher alcohol content. Weirdly I predict a similar fate: I expect some Cloud employee will walk off with some banks cloud-hosted server containing gobs of financial data (if it hasn't happened already) and that'll be the end of that. There'll probably be a rush of "security enhanced" cloud solutions after that, but it'll probably hurt them badly in the process.