It is interesting that Amazon never seem to go down the acquisition route- if they did, Heroku could be a target.
I really want someone to make an RDS-like service for Postgres. But I don't blame people for not trying right now, I'm sure Amazon will do it eventually.
Are you saying Amazon would buy Salesforce, or that Amazon would buy Heroku from Salesforce?
I actually forgot that Heroku had been bought out by Salesforce- but the point remains that before they sold, Amazon could have been tried competing in any buy out.
I can't quite believe Amazon has never acquired anyone, though- are there any high profile ones out there?
eh? From the bottom of the Amazon.com homepage ...
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AbeBooks
AfterSchool.com
Audible
BeautyBar.com
Book Depository
Bookworm.com
Casa.com
CreateSpace
Diapers.com
DPReview
Fabric
IMDb
Junglee.com
MYHABIT
Shopbop
Soap.com
Vine.com
Wag.com
Woot
Yoyo.com
Zappos
Most of those look like online retailers and not iaas or compute services companies.
No one builds services like amazon. They aren't interested in bolting on someone else's idea company.
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by tedunangst on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @03:11PM
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Plus defunct operations like cdnow.
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by shalmanese on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:09PM
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Amazon bought Zappos and Kiva
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by papsosouid on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @12:42PM
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Someone already did, like a year ago:
http://www.enterprisedb.com/
I assume the Heroku guys have noticed by now. Hopefully they're working on designing Amazon out.