Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach...
by adev_ on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:53PM
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> But, going with the biggest most stable vendor is usually good. If you bought IBM hardware in the 70s you can still buy new hardware that supports your software. If you went with their competitors - not so much.
For 20 times the cost of commodities x86 that you should have bought by doing the right thing.
And this 20 times the cost will very likely also please your own competitors because you will yourself be less competitive.
That's how you finish with entire airline industry or bank still running on COBOL with no possibility of migration.
IBM itself is very happy about it however.
Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach...
by scarface74 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:47PM
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How much will it cost to rewrite everything? What were they suppose to choose in the 70s? Do you think that all of the people still using IBM and running legacy code are dumb or just maybe they did a cost benefit analysis and decided they didn’t need to rewrite everything in Node and React?
Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach...
by adev_ on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:31AM
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Maybe you should ask why some sector that "fear" failures more than anything else (banks, aviations) are still trapped into these systems while everyone else is not.
This is exactly related to what I was saying before.
What makes outsourcing hardware different from the dozens of other software as a service vendors that most companies depend on?
Why spend the time developing competency in managing servers if that doesn’t give you a competitive advantage.
But, going with the biggest most stable vendor is usually good. If you bought IBM hardware in the 70s you can still buy new hardware that supports your software. If you went with their competitors - not so much.