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Why be an information infrastructure company on top of a delivery company? Why would they want to do both if they didn't need to. And pretty much all companies
by eikenberry 4y ago
Why be an information infrastructure company on top of a delivery company? Why would they want to do both if they didn't need to. And pretty much all companies are going multi-vendor to avoid lockin and provide leverage for negotiations. Their information is the part that runs the company, not the stack.
- kragen 4y agoWhy be a management company on top of a delivery company? Or a finance company on top of a delivery company? Or an employer on top of a delivery company? Because if you outsource any of those functions 100%, your vendor owns the actual company.
- eikenberry 4y agoIf your company is already public (like FedEx) then you don't own your company anyways. So who cares who owns it. All that matters is that it profits the shareholders.
- kragen 4y agoYeah, the shareholders really don't appreciate it when the management of the company sells it out from under them to a vendor, cutting off the shareholders' future stream of profits. The cloud is a new enough grift that they maybe aren't aware that that's what's happening.