Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS

Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by emodendroket on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:47AM (#14612181)

I'm not sure small and medium businesses are really the "bedrock of American capitalist power." Maybe you could argue they're the bedrock of American values or something like that.

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by throwawaymanbot on Thursday June 22, 2017 @02:46PM (#14614371)

Just to see if we were right or wrong, I found this article. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/77398

Here are stand out ones from the article. For just small business alone. I actually thought middle size business would have had figures like this.

* Small businesses create 75 percent of the net new jobs in our economy. * Small businesses pay more than 44 percent of the nation's private payroll. * More than 50 percent of the U.S. private gross domestic product is generated by small businesses. * Almost 97 percent of exporters are small businesses.

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by emodendroket on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:47AM (#14619547)

Those numbers are certainly much better than I expected, but "capitalist power" is kind of abstract and I was thinking such a thing was better represented by GM, Lockheed Martin, Apple, etc. -- i.e., companies with resources and influence to rival some sovereign powers.

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by throwawaymanbot on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:05PM (#14623852)

yea, I hear ya! I can live with that :)

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