Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
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Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
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Re: Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
#2So for cultural reasons?
Is it not perhaps because there's much less competition for .NET stack cloud platforms, therefore less quality?
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#3So for cultural reasons? Is it not perhaps because there's much less competition for .NET stack cloud platforms, therefore less quality?
competition isn't required for quality.
Re: Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
#4What a silly argument. "If you just want to use someone else’s computers, it means you don’t love computers — at least not every aspect to them."
Uh, don't they use Dell? If they love them so much, why not build their own? Why stop there? I love software and programming languages, but it doesn't mean I'm going to use my own compiler or run a company on my own libc.
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#5I suspect that this is part of the problem with many big manufacturing companies these days. Ford was a leader for so many years was because their leadership was passionate about engineering and manufacturing. Henry Ford was an engineer for the Edison Company before he was a manager and is famous for obsessing about every detail of the manufacturing process. That sort of spirit infected the company up through the 1960's and 70's when the MBA's took over and everything was reduced to a column of numbers.
It appears that many early tech companies (TI, HP) have headed in the same direction. Maybe 30 - 40 years is the limit before the accountants take over.
Re: Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
#6So for cultural reasons? Is it not perhaps because there's much less competition for .NET stack cloud platforms, therefore less quality?
competition isn't required for quality.
Of course it is.
If there is no competition, you can get by with a crappy product or service if your client need it.
Re: Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
#7So for cultural reasons? Is it not perhaps because there's much less competition for .NET stack cloud platforms, therefore less quality?
Amazon has very good .NET support. So does Rackspace. So does Azure (obviously). In my personal experience the quality of cloud platforms has been comparable for both Linux and Windows environments. Is there any evidence that .NET cloud platforms are of lower quality? I'm genuinely interested. Please elaborate.
Re: Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
competition isn't required for quality.
Of course it is. If there is no competition, you can get by with a crappy product or service if your client need it.
You're arguing that competition is sufficient for quality, not that it's necessary. The first vendor might choose to provide a high quality product regardless, which could, in itself, provide a barrier to entry preventing competition.
The real win of competition is that it allows a market to be commoditized, at which point it actually operates like we all learned in our Econ 101 class.
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#10Poorly written argument full of red herrings. From what I can tell, their answer to the "why aren't you in the cloud" question is that they "love computers so much that they want to do it all themselves because it's so fun".