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Re:Spanner: Becoming a SQL System [pdf] by speedplane on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:38AM (#14339389)
> I wonder what would happen if the open source community built a viable alternative to the cloud IaaS. ... Network virtualization is the hardest part.

I would think that the hardware itself is the hardest part. Companies move to the cloud because it reduces their internal OPs team, and you can scale up and down hardware extremely easily.

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Re:Spanner: Becoming a SQL System [pdf] by slackingoff2017 on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:13AM (#14339497)
I respectfully disagree. Every company I've been part of moving to the cloud already had plenty of hardware. It was ease of provisioning VM's, backups, deployment, and networking that really convinced them.

VMWare comes close to offering the same thing on premesis but Oracle is too obsessed with wringing money from it to let it reach it's full potential.

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