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> Given the track-record of Google and companies similar to Google What does “similar to Google” mean? All for profit companies? My rent doesn’t increase by 10

by f6v 4y ago

> Given the track-record of Google and companies similar to Google What does “similar to Google” mean? All for profit companies? My rent doesn’t increase by 100% only because it’s illegal to do so. Otherwise, I don’t see anything immoral about it.

PedroBatista 4y ago
Let me introduce to the World of corporate IT licenses and contracts.. Exhibit number 1: Oracle..
- Mizoguchi 4y ago
  When I called Oracle to inquire about a license and they set up a 1 hour meeting with 5 people in it I knew it would not be cheap. I was right.
  - ilikerashers 4y ago
    I needed an Oracle test database lately to try and get "off" Oracle and they came in and did a licence review. Ended up having to pay £1m due to some legacy non-compliance and couldn't even afford the test DB anymore.
tanseydavid 4y ago
>> What does “similar to Google” mean? All for profit companies? Did you really think the comparison of "similar to Google" would amount to "all for-profit companies?" I think what perhaps was meant by "similar to Google" was: - Mature technology company - Large enough to be at or near the top worldwide in terms of revenue, employees, users, etc. - Involved in many different technologies rather than a single technology
michaelt 4y ago
> What does “similar to Google” mean? All for profit companies? AWS has a reputation for not raising prices [1, 2, 3]. Presumably this is a deliberate business strategy - customers are much more willing to risk vendor lock-in when they're pretty sure they won't get screwed over. So given the context, I assume "companies similar to Google" means "corporate IT vendors that haven't chosen a never-increase-prices strategy" [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/yr8ggq/comment/ivste15/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/yr8ggq/comment/ivste15... [2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/amazon-ec2-15th-years-of-optimizing-and-saving-your-it-costs/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/amazon-ec2-... [3] https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/ https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AW...
- jefftk 4y ago
  https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/ https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AW... concludes S3 has only ever gotten cheaper, but this isn't quite true. On 2007-06-01 [1] they lowered their data transfer charges but added a per-request charge. Depending on your workload this could have been a price increase. But this was sixteen years ago and I'm having trouble thinking of anything since. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070502160305/http://www.amazon.com/S3-AWS-home-page-Money/b?ie=UTF8&node=16427261 https://web.archive.org/web/20070502160305/http://www.amazon...

by f6v 4y ago

PedroBatista 4y ago

Let me introduce to the World of corporate IT licenses and contracts.. Exhibit number 1: Oracle..

Mizoguchi 4y ago
When I called Oracle to inquire about a license and they set up a 1 hour meeting with 5 people in it I knew it would not be cheap. I was right.
- ilikerashers 4y ago
  I needed an Oracle test database lately to try and get "off" Oracle and they came in and did a licence review. Ended up having to pay £1m due to some legacy non-compliance and couldn't even afford the test DB anymore.

tanseydavid 4y ago

>> What does “similar to Google” mean? All for profit companies? Did you really think the comparison of "similar to Google" would amount to "all for-profit companies?" I think what perhaps was meant by "similar to Google" was: - Mature technology company - Large enough to be at or near the top worldwide in terms of revenue, employees, users, etc. - Involved in many different technologies rather than a single technology

michaelt 4y ago

> What does “similar to Google” mean? All for profit companies? AWS has a reputation for not raising prices [1, 2, 3]. Presumably this is a deliberate business strategy - customers are much more willing to risk vendor lock-in when they're pretty sure they won't get screwed over. So given the context, I assume "companies similar to Google" means "corporate IT vendors that haven't chosen a never-increase-prices strategy" [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/yr8ggq/comment/ivste15/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/yr8ggq/comment/ivste15... [2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/amazon-ec2-15th-years-of-optimizing-and-saving-your-it-costs/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/amazon-ec2-... [3] https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/ https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AW...

jefftk 4y ago
https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AWS-pricing-over-time/ https://www.stayclassyinternet.com/articles/investigating-AW... concludes S3 has only ever gotten cheaper, but this isn't quite true. On 2007-06-01 [1] they lowered their data transfer charges but added a per-request charge. Depending on your workload this could have been a price increase. But this was sixteen years ago and I'm having trouble thinking of anything since. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070502160305/http://www.amazon.com/S3-AWS-home-page-Money/b?ie=UTF8&node=16427261 https://web.archive.org/web/20070502160305/http://www.amazon...