Where did the Cloud model go wrong?
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Where did the Cloud model go wrong?
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#2As the Cloud grew, Cloud providers took the open-source technologies off the shelf and started hosting them in the cloud without collaborating with the open-source innovators for the most part. The challenge with this model is that open-source technology providers are left with all the hard work to build and maintain their projects while cloud providers completely monetized it for their own profits.
The other challenge is that cloud providers don't contribute back to the community for the most part. In fact, they are creating new proprietary technologies by making some of the open-source technologies cloud-native, luring decision-makers into them, and charging more premium for them.
In a nut-shell: Today's cloud providers are NOT built with a win-win mindset. What do you folks think?
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Re: Where did the Cloud model go wrong?
#3As the Cloud grew, Cloud providers took the open-source technologies off the shelf and started hosting them in the cloud without collaborating with the open-source innovators for the most part. The challenge with this model is that open-source technology providers are left with all the hard work to build and maintain their projects while cloud providers completely monetized it for their own profits. The other challen…
Sounds like a failure to control for the pernicious tragedy-of-the-commons problem that all market facing systems need to compensate for because people will take free things until they're gone. Everyone loves finding a good deal and saving money.