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Re:Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google... by pinewurst on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:17PM (#36413570)
I can totally imagine a spinoff either to Oracle or IBM. Possibly Cisco as an outlier.

BTW I have to deal with Google Cloud as a “partner” and they’re a major pain in the ass - everything we do is mandated as custom, we have to come to them, etc - compared with their competitors who actually feel like partners. We’re always one Google reorg away from throwing away our efforts to be replaced with another goat rodeo.

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Re:Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google... by kyrra on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:30PM (#36413654)
A spin-off would not be technically possible without effectively rewriting GCP.
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Re:Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google... by Bajeezus on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:46PM (#36426346)
The Google Distributed Cloud Hosted project is a non-borg port of GCP that could be run by anyone.
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Re:Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google... by re-thc on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:02PM (#36413871)
> I can totally imagine a spinoff either to Oracle or IBM. Possibly Cisco as an outlier.

Higher chance of it being sold off to a rich SAAS wanting to get in like a Salesforce type.

IBM started by buying Softlayer and other clouds so yes no chance.

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