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		markus_zhang on May 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM c... However, would it be sensible to keep a small team on a different tech (in this case move everything to N but keep a small V team) so that when shit happens in the other side you have an immediate team to migrate everything to this side? (I'm thinking about MSFT who maintained a small Windows team when the majority effort went to OS/2 back in the 80s)

alephnerd on May 23, 2024 [–]

The MSFT case was R&D spend, but Infra falls under the Finance&IT bucket, where the available capital is much less.

markus_zhang on May 23, 2024 | [–]

I see. I guess the multi-cloud example you mentioned earlier makes more sense then.

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