plnk22

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   by plnk22 12y ago

   The writing was on the wall for MS's dev platform since open source dominates startups and the cloud. Nobody builds the next facebook or twitter using MS tools and Windows. If anything the rise of open source and linux put MS in a posi
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   by plnk22 12y ago

   How much has MS truly open sourced? SQL Server? Windows? Visual Studio? MS Office? No, MS has realised Linux is winning in the Cloud and want to open source their development platform in a desperate attempt to stay relevant. That said, Goo
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   by plnk22 12y ago

   It's probably more accurate to say that Google has joined Microsoft as being a fast follower more than an innovator. Just look at Google+ attempting to follow FB's lead, and now GCE being a very obvious attempt to emulate AWS and
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   by plnk22 12y ago

   GCE had a multi region outage so multi zone within a region wouldn't have helped in this case.
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   by plnk22 12y ago

   Perhaps the fact that the GCE outage affected multiple regions around the world. EC2 outages were all localized to a single region (and in most cases limited to a single AZ within that region).