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ASPs essentially got reimagined as SaaS by, most visibly, Salesforce early on. They weren't the only example at the time but they were the ones on stage at ever
by ghaff 2y ago
ASPs essentially got reimagined as SaaS by, most visibly, Salesforce early on. They weren't the only example at the time but they were the ones on stage at every remotely relevant conference.
And, yes, there were hopes for portability early on even though it was clear that the cloud providers weren't much interested and it became harder as services became more complex. There are some glimmers of portability--such as using my former employer's OpenShift for Kubernetes--but single-pane-of-glass management and API translations between cloud providers never really panned out.
- kjellsbells 2y agoI worked with IBM at one time, who were convinced that they could build a real time workload arbitrage system, whereby loads could instantly move from one cloud to another based on spot price rates offered by cloud providers. Nice idea that quickly ran into the reality of platform stickiness (and sweet reserved-instance pricing).
- ghaff 2y agoYeah. In my prior analyst stint, there was a lot of automagical cloudbursting talk (and migration between clouds quickly based on pricing). In addition to the platform stickiness you mention, there was the matter of, as Scotty would have said: You canna change the laws of physics.