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None of companies you mentioned have cornered any market. Dropbox may be popular but it's still not mainstream. Heroku's market is still very young. AWS is p
by dannyr 14y ago
None of companies you mentioned have cornered any market.
Dropbox may be popular but it's still not mainstream.
Heroku's market is still very young.
AWS is probably used by just half of the startups I know. But Linode & Rackspace are pretty big too.
- taligent 14y agoLinode and Rackspace are nothing more than commodity Linux box providers with some related services. AWS is morphing very quickly into a true end to end PaaS. Big difference. And it's hard to see who can compete with them.
- dannyr 14y agoThe parent post is about VMs not end-to-end PaaS. With other aspects of PaaS, Amazon is still gaining ground. SendGrid is probably the leader in mail services. The market as a whole is still very young. It's very short-sighted to say that Google won't be able to compete with Amazon. And besides, do you actually have full knowledge of what Google is going to release?