Yes, Jeff Bezos and company saw the cloud data center when all of the companies actually running data centers and making computers did not. Too many frozen middle managers and greedy executives thinking only of the quarterly bottom line instead of the future. I own AMZN stock today, not HPE......
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EDS went away when Les Alberthal was done and D--k Brown took over. Mark Hurd put the knife in what was left, and Meg finished it off.
You know you are muppets when an internet book seller gets the jump on all of the IT big boys to the next big IT thing... yes you IBM, HPE, CSC etc etc
Both in 1998 and in 2006 I suggested the same thing; EDS as Cloud Vendor. No one was interested; they were making their money from ITO and thought that was going to continue to be the case.
It is sad, but I have to say we mainly did it to ourselves. We were the masters at leveraging data centers for multiple clients when they were primarily IBM mainframes, when the technology changed we did not change quickly enough. Why did EDS not become the cloud, software-as-a-service leader? We could have with more insightful and less greedy leadership......we did not.
Mark Hurd mortally wounded what was EDS in 2008 when he tried to turn it from a platform agnostic developer and service provider into a sales channel for HP. The day the hard sell began.
That was the moment that our Solaris loving customer went from collaborative to suspicious and the whole relationship changed for the worst. The fact that CSC remains agnostic, and I've no doubt the merged company will continue that, is a positive going forward.