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Ignorant American here who has never heard of Lidl/Schwarz Group before. Is there anything in their history that would show that they know how to do compute? Is

Ignorant American here who has never heard of Lidl/Schwarz Group before. Is there anything in their history that would show that they know how to do compute? Is their infrastructure right now really solid/better than AWS?

Jnr 6y ago
Who could forget their SAP failure two years ago. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446965/Lidl-dumps-500m-SAP-project https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446965/Lidl-dumps-500...
- hobofan 6y ago
  That was also the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. Might have been a wake up call for them to put more resources into IT and make it a core competency in the future.
puszczyk 6y ago
They are a very popular discount (I guess a bit like Walmart, but this is not a 1:1 analogy). The article mentions cloud for the retailers and 70 cloud specialists. It think this is far from AWS scale and judging by the article I’d expect they (will) offer services for European retailers rather than general purpose global cloud. They are good in their core business, and I’m sure this means logistics, marketing, etc. but does it translate to potential operational efficiency in cloud infra I honestly don’t know. It may, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
hotgeart 6y ago
European (BE) here, no. They are just know for being cheap stores and have time to time crazy promo on an limited article. You can't even rly do all of your groceries there. Unless you only eat frozen chickens, chips, soda and vegetable cans. Their website is slow af btw (4s to display a detail page). So if they want to do an AWS like. They'll need to invest. Its not like Amazon : hey we've a bunch of unused servers why we don't rent them?
- hobofan 6y ago
  > hey we've a bunch of unused servers why we don't rent them? That's not the origin story of AWS. That myth has been debunked numerous times.

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Ignorant American here who has never heard of Lidl/Schwarz Group before. Is there anything in their history that would show that they know how to do compute? Is

by abhisuri97 6y ago

Jnr 6y ago
Who could forget their SAP failure two years ago. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446965/Lidl-dumps-500m-SAP-project https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446965/Lidl-dumps-500...
- hobofan 6y ago
  That was also the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. Might have been a wake up call for them to put more resources into IT and make it a core competency in the future.
puszczyk 6y ago
They are a very popular discount (I guess a bit like Walmart, but this is not a 1:1 analogy). The article mentions cloud for the retailers and 70 cloud specialists. It think this is far from AWS scale and judging by the article I’d expect they (will) offer services for European retailers rather than general purpose global cloud. They are good in their core business, and I’m sure this means logistics, marketing, etc. but does it translate to potential operational efficiency in cloud infra I honestly don’t know. It may, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
hotgeart 6y ago
European (BE) here, no. They are just know for being cheap stores and have time to time crazy promo on an limited article. You can't even rly do all of your groceries there. Unless you only eat frozen chickens, chips, soda and vegetable cans. Their website is slow af btw (4s to display a detail page). So if they want to do an AWS like. They'll need to invest. Its not like Amazon : hey we've a bunch of unused servers why we don't rent them?
- hobofan 6y ago
  > hey we've a bunch of unused servers why we don't rent them? That's not the origin story of AWS. That myth has been debunked numerous times.