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How is it any different than being locked to AWS/Azure/Oracle/Google?
by JamesAdir 4y ago
How is it any different than being locked to AWS/Azure/Oracle/Google?
- notyourwork 4y agoIts not be most C-level execs are these companies can present it as IT evolution and progress. Balance sheets look different because accounting has costs in different places. It all looks good.
- safaci2000 4y agoWell your also hardware locked. The last time I worked on a mainframe (about a decade), 8 mb of RAM was $1000, a network card was $800. Commodity hardware around the same time 8mb was probably $50 and a network card even a good one was most $100. You're paying a premium for both the hardware and the lack of develops knowing EBSIDIC, JCL, Cobol, etc.. Actually, from what I remember of Oracle, that might be very similar. I remember having to pay license fees per core.
- daemoens 4y agoYou mean gb of memory right? Or you might have been working with several decades ago.
- marcosdumay 4y agoThe lock-in is less severe on AWS/Azure/Oracle/Google.
- res0nat0r 4y agoI'm assuming FedEx wants to be in the package delivery business, not the owning compute hardware, datacenter, cooling and power business.