The whole thing reminds me of the early nineties. There was a whole mature infrastructure built around UNIX and open standards at the time. We were told to sc

The whole thing reminds me of the early nineties. There was a whole mature infrastructure built around UNIX and open standards at the time. We were told to scrap that and replace it with Windows NT and its descendants. While UNIX wasn't perfect¹, Windows was an order of magnitude worse. Compared to our UNIX machines, those systems got the internet protocols wrong, were full of security holes and crashed all the time. Objectively worse performance and security was tolerated for a decade or more, just because we all convinced each other that this was the way things were going. It took Microsoft maybe ten fifteen years to work their problems out. And now there's a Linux env built into Windows. This cloud thing isn't the end of computing history, just like Windows on the server wasn't the end of history. Cloud isn't better than on prem. It's just popular right now. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm