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by JohnJamesRambo 1489 days ago
It’s more like being a chef and paying another company to cut up your ingredients for you and cook them.

Companies these days just want to specialize in making cool menu designs and marketing and waiting on the three star Michelin review to roll in somehow.
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simiones 1489 days ago
> It’s more like being a chef and paying another company to cut up your ingredients for you and cook them.

That would be like a Hypervisor company paying VMWare to re-distribute ESXi or something.

But a farm company buying VMWare ESXi to run its IT infra instead of using, say, CentOS is exactly like a chef sourcing ingredients instead of growing them herself.

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teh64 1489 days ago
That is not the same analogy, because a chef's job is to make food, but say a trucking companies job is not to create GPS and mapping software, or some HR tool which tracks sick days etc... The difference is what the core competency of the company is.
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