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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
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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.
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