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I'm interested to hear how the reasoning is behind thinking that Amazon would be hit by any anti-trust issues and not Google or Microsoft. As far as I know, all
by capableweb 7y ago
I'm interested to hear how the reasoning is behind thinking that Amazon would be hit by any anti-trust issues and not Google or Microsoft. As far as I know, all three of them are in the cloud/hosting business.
- djsumdog 7y agoWith all the mergers we've seen in the past 20 years, with Facebook literally buying all of its major competitors, I highly doubt the SEC would stop a buy out of Digital Ocean from any of these three providers. I doubt any of those providers would want DO. Unless they just want to buy the developers, they're not going to get the customers unless they provide some type of automatic migration pattern where yesterday everything was a Digital Ocean Droplet and DO LoadBalancer and hosted database and today we've magically and transparently migrated all of that to EC2, ELBs and RDS. It's easier to just market to the customer base and get them to migrate their stuff on their own.
- toast0 7y agoGoogle and Microsoft don't have a dominant market position in cloud hosting; and their other dominant positions don't seem to be impacting the cloud marketplace (well, maybe Microsoft is doing some tying)
- wu_187 7y agoGoogle and Microsoft actually do have dominant positions in cloud hosting, just not in the "traditional" sense of webhosting.
- wmf 7y ago#1 buying #4 looks very different than #3 buying #4. (Think about AT&T & T-Mobile vs. T-Mobile & Sprint.) But I agree that DO has little or nothing to offer Google/MS.