Replies to post #36608 on Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

[stpioc]

["The sudden shift in plans had a massive impact on s3d monetization plans. Virtually everything not msft ground to a halt as msft consumed the vast majority of s3d resources. The wisdom or folly of this all in strategy will be revealed in 2016, but the simple reality is none of us could have foreseen the Titanic shift in s3d marketing strategy in December of 2014..."]

Funny enough this is exactly what this "armchair analyst" suggested here as a possibility as long ago as yesterday, that Sphere dramatically altered their monetization strategy somewhere in 2015 to go all in on Azure.

But then you go a bit overboard, I think. It isn't actually so difficult to get on Azure (it's a pretty crowded place, as it happens), so all that stuff about fast tracking and overriding their bureaucracy, dunno about that..

[DoYourDDLikeMe]

I agree with you as well. So refreshing to read your 3 posts and your opinion considering a prior post I made to pete manyx not so long ago.

MSFT was at the forefront of containerization dvlpt and had a R&D brain trust working on it 7-10 yrs ago but they were ahead of their time and black-boxed it as it took resources away from something else they were launching. I'll ask my friends if I see them over Xmas to expand on whatever I wrote on the topic with pete.

So absolutely no surprise that MSFT was able to get back up to speed on containerization aka Glassware, Snap etc so quickly given they could go to current and former experts on the topic from that "R&D Group who must be feeling pretty vindicated right about now.

Listening to you simply reaffirms my convictions about what I was told by ex EMC folks who attended Pacific NorthWest Presentation sponsored by some outfit Invstmt Capital outfit. I must re-check for correct name.

Encouraging to hear snippets of MSFT history re containerization work put aside for the other product launch that took precedence.

What are the chances old group having accomplished whatever they did at MSFT were the ones called upon to review Glassware etc. for Azure? Pretty good my friends think.

Its all about Azure and MSFT will do whatever it takes to build market share asap.


On another note, can't help but wonder though what happened to all the wonderful things Overland Merger was supposed to bring to the table. EK and his 16,000 whatever they were supposed to be. If it brought MSFT to the table fine but doubt we'll know unless Morelli could have been part of the MSFT Group somehow? who knows!