Google Cloud + Open Source announcement

Yesterday, Google Cloud publicly renewed their commitment to open source. They've been long-time contributors to Go, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, and many others, but they're announcing new strategic partnerships with a bunch of leading open-source projects and companies:

• Confluent
• DataStax
• Elastic
• InfluxData
• MongoDB
• Neo4j
• Redis Labs

...we’ll be offering managed services operated by these partners that are tightly integrated into Google Cloud Platform (GCP), providing a seamless user experience across management, billing and support. This makes it easier for our enterprise customers to build on open-source technologies...

It seems to make sense for all parties, and could be seen as a direct response to AWS, who has gained notoriety recently for their "abuse" of open source.

Any reactions to this announcement?

Comments

[K]

Let's see how much of that will be discontinued in the next years.

Zacharias Joseph

@zachjoe16

"@GoogleCloud CEO Thomas Kurian told The Wall Street Journal that he planned to borrow some strategies from @Oracle to help the search giant catch up to its peers @awscloud and @Azure in the cloud wars."
businessinsider.com/google-cloud-c…"

10:56 AM - 10 Apr 2019

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news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19616328

Doesn't look good.

[Jonathan ES Lin]

That's the way to go... take that, AWS!

People who are always saying "discontinued in x years"... Google Cloud is not like Google Consumer. Kubernetes, Tensorflow, and Golang are already proven Google commitments to open source, yet developers continue to say "discontinued in x years". What gives?