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Competing with Amazon/Google/Microsoft on their own cloud is...ehm...good luck with that indeed. I believe they should have partnered with them early on (real p
by wardb 5y ago
Competing with Amazon/Google/Microsoft on their own cloud is...ehm...good luck with that indeed. I believe they should have partnered with them early on (real partnership, like a premier offering, not the rubber stamp / marketplace partnership).
- manigandham 5y agoIt can work, as that's exactly what Snowflake has done and it's one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies today. A good product is more valuable than a partnership.
- 8ytecoder 5y agoDatabricks as well. Azure sells both their own version and “Azure Databricks”
- wardb 5y agoGood products, but don't discount their go-to-market strategy. IIRC MS/Azure is an early Databricks investor and their sales folks were heavily incentivised to sell it. They also pushed Snowflake in the early days until they had a competing product and their relationship status was upgraded to 'it's complicated'.