Re:Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2...
by tyingq on Sunday May 14, 2017 @11:45PM
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There's a fair amount of lockdown with cloud providers as well. Not DRM related, but there nonetheless. Egress charges make it unsavory to move some apps out. And proprietary api setups make it more difficult to move as well...things like Google's cloud spanner, or AWS native features.
The big cloud providers will also, over time, shape what's available in hardware in a way that won't benefit on-premise customers.
The big cloud providers will also, over time, shape what's available in hardware in a way that won't benefit on-premise customers.