Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/25/25 7:12 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:01:55 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

As the T-shirt says:
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     There is no Cloud.
     It's just someone else's computer.

 I am amused by the concept of a 'private cloud'. Oh, you mean we should
run our own servers like we've been doing for the last 40 years and hang a
sign on the server room door that says 'cloud'?

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 Hey - you can then charge 5 times as much !  :-)
>

This is the truth! It is very interesting to see successful startups moving back from the cloud due to the enormous cost advantages of running it themselves. Once you hit a certain size of the company, self-hosting will almost always be cheaper, with the added benefit of control over your own IT.