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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by hueving on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:32PM (#13647899)
>What's happening for the next decade is the destruction of businesses hosting their own IT infrastructure and moving it to a couple of core centers.

Yes, and this will be disadvantageous over the long run for people that want to run things themselves. Ultimately companies like AMD/Intel go where the big money is at. As things centralize further and further, there will only be 3 customers they care about in the server market.

Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by jghn on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:06AM (#13649847)
This isn't true. They desperately want to enable users outside of the big cloud vendors as they have very little price leverage over the big vendors
Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by hueving on Monday February 20, 2017 @11:26PM (#13693267)
But that won't matter if users keep moving to the cloud. They will be forced to just work on whatever Amazon/Microsoft/Google want.