[magicalist]

I didn't read it to see what you were referring to, but that's the second edition of an older book, so maybe they didn't update everything for the new edition. Google has been banging the software-defined networking drum for a while now (configuration is part of the compute engine APIs now, for instance[1]).

[1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/04/enter-androm...

[planckscnst]

Yes, I just looked at the place where it specifically talks about switching costs (chapter 1 around page 18/19), and it hasn't changed.