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What's funny about this is that it used be be true - Whatsapp started on Softlayer, and didn't move away until Facebook bought them. If IBM had even just kept
by sjm-lbm 6y ago
What's funny about this is that it used be be true - Whatsapp started on Softlayer, and didn't move away until Facebook bought them.
If IBM had even just kept pace and stayed behind AWS with Softlayer after they acquired them, they would have a healthy cloud business by now. It might be because I maintained a system on Softlayer both pre and post acquisition - so I was really close and able to see what was happening - but they squandered a huge opportunity there.
- jacquesm 6y agoAh yes, that's true, they in fact were hosted there at some point. I couldn't have picked a worse example :) Or; in a way it is proof that IBM is a bad choice for companies that operate at scale and are low margin and data heavy. Hosting costs must have been a substantial fraction of operating costs for Whatsapp (obviously, long after personnel).