> Not true, you can compete with the quality of the deployed service _separate_ from the development of the software.
That is true in a literal sense but (anecdotally) from the point of view of an engineer deploying ie; Redis, there is no real space for that angle of competition when the choice is between having to go through procurement hurdles to sign a contract with Redis Labs versus say; spinning up Redis on AWS which has zero hurdles because there is already an organization wide agreement in place for example.
The competition there isn't a level playing field as the deck is kind of stacked for most businesses where engineers don't have free reign to procurement what might be objectively the best hosting solution?
I've never really thought through this in any depth before now so don't consider this a great fleshed out argument, just an observation from my personal experience.
Honestly the idea that you can win by just being better is so deeply out of touch with enterprise that I assume anyone suggesting this doesn't understand the problem enough to be trying to argue against antirez of all people on Earth about this.
And that's not an appeal to authority: there just so genuinely and obviously is no such guarantee in enterprise that quality will ensure success that explaining it feels like trying to break down an elementary element.
That is true in a literal sense but (anecdotally) from the point of view of an engineer deploying ie; Redis, there is no real space for that angle of competition when the choice is between having to go through procurement hurdles to sign a contract with Redis Labs versus say; spinning up Redis on AWS which has zero hurdles because there is already an organization wide agreement in place for example.
The competition there isn't a level playing field as the deck is kind of stacked for most businesses where engineers don't have free reign to procurement what might be objectively the best hosting solution?
I've never really thought through this in any depth before now so don't consider this a great fleshed out argument, just an observation from my personal experience.