My thought for shorter trials: If something more important derailed the trial then the product isn’t solving a problem with enough urgency for you and you were unlikely to convert.
Moby is the fedora like oss project and docker is the RHEL like commercial product. Purely a clever rebranding job. Timing is perfect - now that enterprise is adopting the technology, when you tell your boss you adopted moby he/she will say- but the CTO wants to be seen as being innovative for adopting this new technology and ita called docker not moby!
Funny how a Slack group is used for discussions. No offense to the lovely people at Slack but they fall into the category of "private, short-lived, growth-oriented companies", no?
Thank you! This makes perfect sense: "A huge percentage of online advertisements are never seen by humans. They are viewed by bots–automated scripts that are opening web pages in a browser and pretending to be a human. Advertising scammers set up web pages, embed advertisements on those pages, and then pay for bot traffic to come and view those advertisements."
Didn't know about workmail! I suppose that's closer to an infrastructure product vs an app like analytics. Isn't a mail server just an API for mail clients to connect to?
Strange one from Amazon. They've always provided cloud infrastructure services for building and launching apps, QuickSight departs from this - it's a ready to use app.
The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure.
Opposite of Google, they have the apps and now want the infrastructure too - I think it's a mistake for Amazon to go down this route, there is too much competition in this space and so far playing with QuickSight I don't see anything new/different from other analytics apps available on Amazon marketplace [1].
It feels like an experiment vs. a new direction for the company
"Somebody heard: Data is the new Oil: No it isn't. Data is not a commodity, it needs to be transformed into a product before it's valuable"
Err...Oil needs to be transformed and refined before it can be called a product (like gasoline, plastics). So the analogy is good and even supports #1!
I think what is dead is open source as a novelty that gets you noticed (e.g. Ipso facto having an open source product means the market you're after notices you over your competitors).
Yes, open source brings commercial benefits to a company over closed source but it's not as big of a differentiator because it's quite pervasive now (which is good!)