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Google side: from maybe a business idea, you could have it work. But from a technical perspective, it would be near impossible without years of engineering effo
by kyrra 4y ago
Google side: from maybe a business idea, you could have it work. But from a technical perspective, it would be near impossible without years of engineering effort. Google has a ton of core internal infra that is shared between all the business units at Google. The only reason this is feasible is that the cost of running it is shared between the units.
(Googler opinions are my own).
- zeckalpha 4y agoCall it a discontinued tier of GCP that only has a handful of customers, and things could more or less stay the same.
- hnbad 4y agoThe fun thing about antitrust is that this is entirely Google's problem.
- londons_explore 4y agoOp is suggesting this breakup might increase shareholder value. Ie. It would be worth doing even without a government regulator forcing it. If true, then their internal engineering limitations directly impact how viable the idea is.
- jeffbee 4y agoYeah I'd love to know how this "spinoff" would work. YouTube is an arms-length independent company but Google happens to have deployed dedicated, co-designed accelerators around the world to support their use case?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoAWS sells video accelerator machines. GCP could sell access to Argos.
- drdec 4y agoSounds like the internal infrastructure should also be spun off into it's own company with the other baby Googles as customers! (sarcasm, in case Poe's Law has you down)
- mbesto 4y ago> The only reason this is feasible I assume by feasible you mean profitable. Which means there is a pricing mismatch then.