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When sticking it to a competitor doesn’t make sense

It’s not often that an IT executive shoots from the hip. In my experience most are as carefully trained as professional athletes not to diss a competitor.
But blogger Ben Kepes came across a tweet from cloud entrepreneur Mark Lucovsky flailing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) critics he followed up.
Lucovsky has experience helping build cloud platforms and is apparently unsparing of providers who don’t have a serve-the-customer’s-needs-first approach but criticize others.
In particular he’s critical of providers who make customers assemble components to make PaaS/IaaS offerings work.
However, Kepes notes that some organizations want that flexibility, and others don’t.


Still, Kepes notes that Lucovsky does have one valid point: Stop sticking knives into competitors and instead serve customers.
It’s good advice for any organization.
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Howard Solomon
Howard Solomon
Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

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