Your pitch is still about differentiated tech, not a large install base, a differentiated business model
and something related to people like a good partner ecosystem.
Your pitch here requires tons of services.
People don't know how to use all of this stuff especially on prem.
It takes more than just code to build a business.
I say this as someone who's been doing this since 2013. It's not easy.
If you want to train DNNs on a hundred GPUs today on-premise on TensorFlow, come to us, we can do it. They can't.
the same point. Tech doesn't matter. Simplicity does.
Even in our own product line, we only do a small
subset of this. We don't even require a cluster
to run. We also work with tech that people use.
You are currently competing with horovod
and kubeflow. eg: "competing with free"
You need more than that to survive.
Generally, that comes down to services.
Your pitch is still about differentiated tech, not a large install base, a differentiated business model
and something related to people like a good partner ecosystem.
Your pitch here requires tons of services.
People don't know how to use all of this stuff especially on prem.
It takes more than just code to build a business.
I say this as someone who's been doing this since 2013. It's not easy.