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Do you have a demo video?

Snowflake is a platform. The lack of trust is in whoever configured Snowflake for AT&T

Credential rotation, SSO, PrivateLink or IP allowlists all should be used with PII.

My thought for shorter trials: If something more important derailed the trial then the product isn’t solving a problem with enough urgency for you and you were unlikely to convert.

Founded in 2004, $129M in funding, 260 employees, 300 customers, undisclosed deal amount.

Moby is the fedora like oss project and docker is the RHEL like commercial product. Purely a clever rebranding job. Timing is perfect - now that enterprise is adopting the technology, when you tell your boss you adopted moby he/she will say- but the CTO wants to be seen as being innovative for adopting this new technology and ita called docker not moby!

I'd say you can build real "ML-driven apps"using only APIs - I disagree that you have to build it all from scratch

Same story with Superset, their homegrown BI system. Why re-invent the wheel?

That's project management- not product management

Funny how a Slack group is used for discussions. No offense to the lovely people at Slack but they fall into the category of "private, short-lived, growth-oriented companies", no?

This discussion came up here before "Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013136

Thank you! This makes perfect sense: "A huge percentage of online advertisements are never seen by humans. They are viewed by bots–automated scripts that are opening web pages in a browser and pretending to be a human. Advertising scammers set up web pages, embed advertisements on those pages, and then pay for bot traffic to come and view those advertisements."

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/12/20/ad-fraud-res...

There's an O'Reilly book titled "Embedding Analytics into Modern Applications" that helps with white label options https://www.jaspersoft.com/resource/free-oreilly-book-embedd...

Apparently QuickSight is an OEM of ZoomData http://fortune.com/2016/03/14/zoomdata-adds-amazon-data-sour...

Wouldnt QuickSight be a SaaS product (not PaaS)?

Didn't know about workmail! I suppose that's closer to an infrastructure product vs an app like analytics. Isn't a mail server just an API for mail clients to connect to?

Strange one from Amazon. They've always provided cloud infrastructure services for building and launching apps, QuickSight departs from this - it's a ready to use app.

The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure.

Opposite of Google, they have the apps and now want the infrastructure too - I think it's a mistake for Amazon to go down this route, there is too much competition in this space and so far playing with QuickSight I don't see anything new/different from other analytics apps available on Amazon marketplace [1].

It feels like an experiment vs. a new direction for the company

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/b/2649336011?ref_=gtw_nav...

"Somebody heard: Data is the new Oil: No it isn't. Data is not a commodity, it needs to be transformed into a product before it's valuable"

Err...Oil needs to be transformed and refined before it can be called a product (like gasoline, plastics). So the analogy is good and even supports #1!

I think what is dead is open source as a novelty that gets you noticed (e.g. Ipso facto having an open source product means the market you're after notices you over your competitors).

Yes, open source brings commercial benefits to a company over closed source but it's not as big of a differentiator because it's quite pervasive now (which is good!)

Nanny != babysitter

Kodak failed because the entire verticalized printed photo industry was demonetized. It's the same way the newspaper industry has shrunk: yes people still take pictures and read news, no there isn't an obvious way for large companies to extract value as there used to be. Printing chemicals and large printing presses are very expensive and hard to reproduce, meanwhile while digital comes along and easily replaces them. And if Instagram dies 10 others can take their place.

GORILLAS.BAS for the win

Thought experiment..even if you could time travel, how would you have saved Kodak?

The French have an approach to this problem as well "forcing manufacturers to tell consumers how long their appliances will last. French companies will also have to inform consumers how long spare parts for the product will be available"[1].

IMHO, because it would only apply to French manufacturers, it will drive any manufacturing outside of France. Similar to the 35 hour work week: interesting principle, bad outcome.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2015/mar/03...

Well for one there's being able to control 51% of bitcoin[1] which would let China "prevent transactions of their choosing from gaining any confirmations, thus making them invalid, potentially preventing people from sending Bitcoins between addresses. They could also reverse transactions they send during the time they are in control (allowing double spend transactions), and they could potentially prevent other miners from finding any blocks for a short period of time."

[1] https://learncryptography.com/cryptocurrency/51-attack

A team of people known to work & accomplish together had a common motivation when they worked for a startup, usually building a single product for a single market. The effects of this focus + motivation is huge. When a larger company like Yahoo acquires the focus + motivation is pulled from underneath them and quickly become quite average.

It's suspicious that North America is missing from this leak. Interesting timing given the election.

There is a study done by a market analyst (Wayne Eckerson) about Building vs Buying BI, he has some good insights based on surveys as to why some companies chose to build and some choose to buy

71% of those who chose to build the BI tools said they built because "We can customize the functionality better"

51% of those who buy say "Buying enables us to provide best-in-class BI functionality"

The study: http://www.jaspersoft.com/sites/default/files/confirmation_f...

Doesn't disclose how he was hacked...I assume he had to accept a forged SSL certificate at some stage?