AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by mr_toad on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:45PM (#18918287)

If you go with AWS because they have the best SLA, or GCE because they have better managed K8 offerings, then fine.

But going with AWS because ‘no-one ever got fired’ for it, or picking Azure because you play squash with a guy from Microsoft’s sales team is just lazy. Not that I’m saying it doesn’t happen.

Forbes and Gartner might ignore the other players, doesn’t mean we can’t be better informed.

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Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source by scarface74 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:47AM (#18920015)

Well, let’s look at where the phrase originated and how that turned out.

If someone had bought a mainframe IBM system in 1980 to run their COBOL system over their competitor, 40 years later, they could still buy a compatible system from IBM. It’s competitors - not so much.

On the other hand, idealism has its place, but when things hit the fan because of your choice of vendors, it’s a lot easier to justify a buying decision by saying the vendor was in the second quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Square.

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