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There are room for other solutions, my point is that they are going to be marginal at best if the only differentiation factor is that they support more standard
by ridruejo 15y ago
There are room for other solutions, my point is that they are going to be marginal at best if the only differentiation factor is that they support more standards.
- wmf 15y agoI didn't really explain myself well. The standards I mentioned have features that EC2 doesn't have, and those features make apps cheaper, more reliable, and easier to develop. Also, standards compliance makes it easier to migrate between cloud and non-cloud. It's not just because.
- ridruejo 15y agoI am not sure the standards mentioned help make the apps more reliable, cheaper, easier to develop, at least in the traditional "higher level of the stack". Most people associate offerings like Heroku to those qualities (and they build on top of EC2). But even assuming that is the case, once the ecosystem is built around a standard platform (Windows in the 90s in my example) then no amount of technical features can effectively compete with it. You need a different approach. Microsoft in the Desktop was not beaten by a better Linux Desktop, but it will be by a combination of Google apps, the iPad, etc.