"It's just a toy" was probably one of the most common remarks made about AWS EC2 in the early days along with endless gripes about security, performance, lack of SLAs, lack of best practice and why no enterprise could ever use it twitter.com/gnomatsu/statu
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So expect the usual - lots of dismissal, a blind panic to get into the field in a few years, lots of "on premise" and enterprise offerings that are doomed from the start, lots of claims that it'll reduce IT budgets (i.e. some will forget Jevons Paradox) and ... it's a long list.
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The proverbial shit will hit the fan however when a two person company that produces a single function that everyone uses gets acquired for $1Bn. It's only a matter of years.
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