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It's probably the right move financially. People love to pay more for less. Prebuilt desktop, server and cloud companies have built businesses around that conce
by caslon 5y ago
It's probably the right move financially. People love to pay more for less. Prebuilt desktop, server and cloud companies have built businesses around that concept.
The average person is undereducated and easily parted from their money. It's a lot easier to make a bad product that appeals to them and get half the market for free than it is to make a good product and try to appeal to the best.
- kodah 5y agoCalling the cloud "less" in terms of return is certainly a take. Writing software in a DC was pretty miserable, managing the systems in a DC while having zero control over provisioning, having to file tickets, sending endless emails, and dealing with single lane DCs with little to no redundancy was particularly miserable. The cloud has a lot of flaws, and I do think we'll end up back in DCs again, but it'll be different this time. Companies will have to have redundant internet providers, they'll have to provide APIs as opposed to helpdesks, they'll have to implement a redundant internal structure that scales well, storage will demand options. All of these things existed before the cloud, but became expectations when the cloud hit the market. That's why a lot of companies moved and I doubt they see it as "less".
- caslon 5y agoCompanies are generally stupid, because any group large enough regresses to the median of its members, or worse, the average of its C-Levels. I'm sure they don't consciously see the cloud as less, but that's still the selling point; it's why they value it.