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AWS is so far ahead that it's not even funny. E.g., go to IBM's cloud site (http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cloud/index.html http://www-935.ibm.com/services
by jbarham 16y ago
AWS is so far ahead that it's not even funny.
E.g., go to IBM's cloud site (http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cloud/index.html http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cloud/index.html) and behold the content free page w/ generic stock photos. Click on the pricing page on the getting started page and it tells you "This page is no longer available".
With AWS by contrast the "Sign Up Now" button is prominently displayed on the home page and in mere minutes you can have your test server up and running for which you pay nothing for a year!
IBM and HP can't get out of the mindset of selling expensive hardware w/ even more expensive support and consulting contracts. Until they do, they are doomed in the cloud space.
- raganwald 16y agoAlso the mindset of playing the "Ask a salesperson for a quote" which is code for "We have no fixed pricing, it will cost whatever you can afford to pay because our business is a resource extraction operation and we will strip-mine your budget."