Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ...
by __jal on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:01PM
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> You could choose to build out your system to be completely cloud agnostic but that is generally regarded to be economically irresponsible [...].
I don't see it being anywhere near that clear-cut.
Seems more akin to what the RDBMS world went through for a long time, and still does, because people insist on using things other than Postgres[1]. You can stay SQL-standard compliant, writing your app to be portable. Or you can use these appealing proprietary extensions to the spec, and not be portable.
Seems like a majority of folks writing in-house choose to use the extensions, and the majority of folks who want others to use their software make an effort to be cross platform.
You'll probably see a similar split with cloud services, although I'm not sure it will necessarily follow the same lines.
I don't see it being anywhere near that clear-cut.
Seems more akin to what the RDBMS world went through for a long time, and still does, because people insist on using things other than Postgres[1]. You can stay SQL-standard compliant, writing your app to be portable. Or you can use these appealing proprietary extensions to the spec, and not be portable.
Seems like a majority of folks writing in-house choose to use the extensions, and the majority of folks who want others to use their software make an effort to be cross platform.
You'll probably see a similar split with cloud services, although I'm not sure it will necessarily follow the same lines.
[1] That's a joke, there.