Shit happens. Their reaction to it, what they learn, and how they prevent it in the future is what matters. It is too early to judge.
More important is how eye-opening this should be for anyone who was hurt by this, on just how dependent they are on a single vendor. Anyone running a business needs to make sure they have their own plans in place to handle outages or disappearance of any vendor.
> Anyone running a business needs to make sure they have their own plans in place to handle outages or disappearance of any vendor.
There seems to be a notion of "I'm not bothering with it because nobody else is." and people shy away from the effort it takes to set up a safety net of fallback vendor(s).
However, as outages become more and more common, and affect more and more pieces of the increasingly integrated global infrastructure, perhaps eventually businesses will be fed up and stand up their own fallback infrastructure.
Most companies I worked for were Microsoft shops; they put all their eggs in one basket. They paid just one vendor: Microsoft. With the outages, it seems silly now to have done that and have no backup plan. They have a plan for what to do if a tornado sends a train through their server room, but no plan if Microsoft Cloud Services fail.
Microsoft has stabbed many companies in the back, like IBM OS/2, Netscape, Sun, and Apple, by copying their software or cloning it with a copycat, and Karma is coming back to bite them.
Shit happens. Their reaction to it, what they learn, and how they prevent it in the future is what matters. It is too early to judge.
More important is how eye-opening this should be for anyone who was hurt by this, on just how dependent they are on a single vendor. Anyone running a business needs to make sure they have their own plans in place to handle outages or disappearance of any vendor.
> Anyone running a business needs to make sure they have their own plans in place to handle outages or disappearance of any vendor.
There seems to be a notion of "I'm not bothering with it because nobody else is." and people shy away from the effort it takes to set up a safety net of fallback vendor(s).
However, as outages become more and more common, and affect more and more pieces of the increasingly integrated global infrastructure, perhaps eventually businesses will be fed up and stand up their own fallback infrastructure.
Most companies I worked for were Microsoft shops; they put all their eggs in one basket. They paid just one vendor: Microsoft. With the outages, it seems silly now to have done that and have no backup plan. They have a plan for what to do if a tornado sends a train through their server room, but no plan if Microsoft Cloud Services fail.
Microsoft has stabbed many companies in the back, like IBM OS/2, Netscape, Sun, and Apple, by copying their software or cloning it with a copycat, and Karma is coming back to bite them.
https://www.kmfms.com/
The website is way out of date, but you get the main idea. No pity for Microsoft.