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Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by djannzjkzxn on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:31PM (#23012344)
If the amount of revenue you are going to give is a rounding error for AWS, you are not going to move the needle on the funding of their other projects. This should be a non-factor in your decision-making process.
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Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by vxNsr on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:52PM (#23012573)
Lots of insiders claim that amazon looks at its competitor's traffic and usage data for ideas. kinda like how grocery stores know which generics to make based on which types of foods do well.
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Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by djannzjkzxn on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:54PM (#23012592)
That theory is discussed in other threads. I’m just responding to the “funding the competition” argument, which is a different angle.
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Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by jfim on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:55PM (#23012617)
You're right, in that the revenue of an incremental customer is negligible to them.

However, as a customer dependent on that particular vendor, one wants to make sure that their cloud provider has no perverse incentive to deprioritize issues one encounters.

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