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> For example, why hasn't Datastax rolled out a cloud offering on AWS yet? Umm... they do (https://www.datastax.com/platform/amazon-web-services https://www.da
by cbsmith 7y ago
> For example, why hasn't Datastax rolled out a cloud offering on AWS yet?
Umm... they do (https://www.datastax.com/platform/amazon-web-services https://www.datastax.com/platform/amazon-web-services). Instacluster also has an offering. Which kind of highlights the problem.
- manigandham 7y agoDidn't see that before. Still a poor implementation compared to what's available. And I mentioned Instaclustr, so if you're fine with them offering Cassandra then AWS is no different.
- cbsmith 7y agoMy point is that there is a reality that AWS can offer even a crummier, more expensive version than someone else, and it will still garner the $'s.
- manigandham 7y agoSure, because that's what customers are fine with. Again the argument has nothing to do with open-source. Everyone has the same challenges when competing with a bigger company selling the same thing.
- cbsmith 7y agoIt's not because they are bigger.
- cbsmith 7y agoEven when Amazon wasn't the largest company on the planet, anyone offering services on AWS had a hell of a time competing on equal footing with AWS offering a similar, if inferior, version of the service. It's not unlike when Microsoft was competing with application vendors... except in the case of open-source you're competing with your own code.