Re:Conglomerates Didn’t Die, They Look Like Amazon
by specialist on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:10AM
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Eli Goldratt's The Goal popularized two main ideas. Theory of constraints and transition from production to services (subscriptions, or both).
Many, many have tried to transition to services. Amazon figured it out.
I was totally invested in Sun's grid computing vision, so I was very slow to recognize AWS. We already had VMs on servers and I couldn't wrap my head around virtualizing everything. It just seemed like so much monkey motion (too much work).
Even so, AWS is slowly, painfully recreating grid computing. By bundling up those services. But unlike Sun, AWS found an incremental path, with many, many ways to monetize along the way.
Many, many have tried to transition to services. Amazon figured it out.
I was totally invested in Sun's grid computing vision, so I was very slow to recognize AWS. We already had VMs on servers and I couldn't wrap my head around virtualizing everything. It just seemed like so much monkey motion (too much work).
Even so, AWS is slowly, painfully recreating grid computing. By bundling up those services. But unlike Sun, AWS found an incremental path, with many, many ways to monetize along the way.