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0 pointsthreeseed7y ago0 comments

Sure. But they are in 3rd place. And so very, very far behind AWS in the range of products, quality of service, developer ecosystem, number of regions etc. And while GCP is still focusing on the basics AWS is locking developers into their platform with paradigms like serverless.

And once IBM launches their cloud I would actually put them ahead of GCP given how useful their Compose suite is.

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manigandham7y ago· 3 in thread

IBM already has a cloud called Bluemix, and they bought/merged Softlayer into it. It's not great.

Compose is just a managed database service which IBM also acquired. I don't see how that alone would put them ahead of any cloud, especially when they're already lacking in infrastructure and software.

threeseedOP7y ago

They also just acquired a tiny little company called Redhat who I am sure knows a thing or two about infrastructure and software. And Compose is the most useful database offering on any cloud IMHO.

manigandham7y ago

Redhat is tiny compared to the clouds. Softlayer is aging and IBM does not have billions in infrastructure buildout to compete. Redhat can provide software but definitely not enough to put them ahead of GCP as you claim.

And Compose manages databases on AWS and GCP too, similar to Aiven and others, so I don't see how that alone makes IBM special.

warrenm7y ago

Red Hat doesn't know a lot about infrastructure

Not that their infrastructure is insignificant ... but it's insignificant

tyingq7y ago· 1 in thread

"And once IBM launches their cloud"

Interesting. Is it just another rename (Softlayer -> BlueMix -> ?). Or something else?

catwell7y ago

Given recent news, I would be surprised if the future of IBM's cloud was not based on OpenShift...

vl7y ago

Yes, but 3rd place is not her fault, but Urs'es, Larry's and Eric's fault. She joined too late to affect that.

golfer7y ago

IBM's capital spending for cloud infrastructure is a drop in the bucket compared to the big 3 cloud providers. Same with Oracle. They aren't going to be able to compete for big dollars.

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