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I don't see any press release from OpsCode, which makes me think this is not a joint venture with them, which in turn makes me wonder how dangerous is to be par
by tbatchelli 14y ago
I don't see any press release from OpsCode, which makes me think this is not a joint venture with them, which in turn makes me wonder how dangerous is to be part of the AWS ecosystem...
If you prove a market around AWS, what are the odds of getting this market gobbled by AWS themselves? They have a level of access to their own infrastructure that you don't have, let alone the access to their own (huge) customer base, integrated billing and branding.
- rgbrenner 14y agoAmazon has been repeatedly accused of exactly what you describe with Amazon Marketplace. This is the first article I was able to find, but I've seen similar articles over the past few years (One of my companies is an ecommerce site that considered selling through Amazon marketplace) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404577482902055882264.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444140457748... So it would not surprise me if they used this same tactic with AWS. Edit: here's a google news link to the article: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304441404577482902055882264.html&ei=kcAjUf2MBObVyAHEzoGgBQ&usg=AFQjCNHh6eNon3AU-e6dKXJWVMv4ieDPEQ&sig2=P2QizYFUsceZCT0BghYQjg https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...
- tbatchelli 14y agoI doubt OpsCode is getting much revenue from OpsWorks, or any, since AWS is giving it out for free. It's hard to compete with free. This tweet from OpsCode reads like they were blindsided and trying to catch up https://twitter.com/opscode/status/303941706888409089 https://twitter.com/opscode/status/303941706888409089