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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by avip on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:02AM (#19151839)
Let me guess: "the tier that we were in" was the free tier?
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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by jussij on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:53AM (#19152354)
And it may well be that "the tier that we were in" was the free tier.

But my question would be why did Google enter a paying field with a free option, knowing full well it would kill off all those paying players, to only then kill their free option knowing all competition is now gone?

Google should not be offering up any service, free or otherwise that has a use by date that is only known to Google.

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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by dragandj on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:48AM (#19152337)
May be so, but Google made sure that "the tier they were in" stays "nothing by Google, ever" for that particular company.
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