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!)
Kodak failed because the entire verticalized printed photo industry was demonetized. It's the same way the newspaper industry has shrunk: yes people still take pictures and read news, no there isn't an obvious way for large companies to extract value as there used to be. Printing chemicals and large printing presses are very expensive and hard to reproduce, meanwhile while digital comes along and easily replaces them. And if Instagram dies 10 others can take their place.