Exactly. From all my years working at "enterprise" companies, I learned that it doesn't matter how useful your product is as long as you get it sold. This is especially true for entrenched products because the friction involved in moving off a given platform is far too high.
I don't know much about IBM.
But AWS all the time gets new services, the services get better and cheaper and they never deprecate stuff.
Re:Amazon Translate
by jjoonathan on Saturday March 02, 2019 @09:22AM
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Yes, and once you build their clunky, buggy minimum viable product into your infrastructure their technical debt becomes your technical debt, even after the second movers figure out how to do it smoothly and do it right.
How do you think IBM wound up peddling outdated crap for exorbitant prices? Exactly the same way. This is how it starts, modern-day IBM is how it ends.
They do this because they can, and they can because, as you pointed out, once infrastructure and permissions and billing are set up with one cloud vendor, it's usually easier to deal with a mediocre-to-bad product than with integrating an entirely new cloud or tech stack.
AWS is the new IBM, with all the good and bad that entails.