• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Maybe a better term is “commodity” technology. Rather than a thing by itself where one company is much better, now it’s everywhere, mostly good enough. It’s not going anywhere but I wouldn’t run a business on it alone

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      8 months ago

      Yes commodity is a much better term here. It is a mature and fairly ubiquitous technology at this point.

    • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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      8 months ago

      I think that’s a fair point. Trying to build a new virtualization company today would have huge initial investment and a steep path to the companies that run their data centers.