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by mrweasel 2078 days ago
IBM bought the best hosting company, at the time, SoftLayer, and transformed it into a the absolute worst.

I see where they’re going, if they’re trying to learn from what went wrong with SoftLayer. IBM culture destroyed SoftLayer, so if they want another go at cloud, they do need that business to stay VERY fare away from the traditional IBM and their consulting business.
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pm90 2078 days ago
Softlayer was a one trick pony. They had the best bare metals in the market. But their product was very poorly built and extremely hard to scale out or add features to.

This is not unexpected. Startups will optimize for a few use cases and deliver, get acquired on those strengths only for the acquiring company to realize that ... the tech isn’t easily scalable.

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vl 2078 days ago
Oracle tried cloud couple times and failed, and finally they opened huge cloud division in Seattle away from corporate mothership.
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