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> It's just that there's no intrinsic reason that the same company that gives away labour as OSS should also make the best complements to that OSS. AWS's versi
by alittletooraph 8y ago
> It's just that there's no intrinsic reason that the same company that gives away labour as OSS should also make the best complements to that OSS.
AWS's version will likely always lag on features, whether it's their Elasticsearch service or this new DocumentDB thing. So to continue the music industry analogy from the original article, sure Taylor Swift may or may not be able run the most reliable streaming service but she'll still get business if Spotify/Pandora only has covers of her songs.
- laurentl 8y agoA closer analogy would be “Spotify/Pandora cannot stream new albums for a period of X months” since AWS has the option to develop the missing features, and will if they’re requested by enough customers (AWS is extremely pragmatic when it comes to product roadmap). So, to strain the music analogy further: if you’re happy with the back catalog and you can wait a little bit to listen to the latest songs (say, while others test if they’re any good) then you don’t have to put up with the unreliable streaming service. IIRC this strategy was tested by Jay-Z with little success. Taylor Swift also came back to Spotify...