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This sort of feels like Microsoft embracing Linux. First they fought it, but the market forces were too strong. Eventually MS figured out how to coexist with Li
by wiremine 6y ago
This sort of feels like Microsoft embracing Linux. First they fought it, but the market forces were too strong. Eventually MS figured out how to coexist with Linux, and leverage it for their business.
Ultimately, lock-in in the cloud is a real issue for companies, and the open source community will figure out how to address this issue. AWS and other platforms will fight this a bit, but ultimately they'll adopt whatever approach emerges.
This isn't too say all cloud-services will be commoditized, but the interop between similar services will be.