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Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd
itwbennett writes "Two reports out this week, one a new 'codex' released by 451 Research and the other an updated survey into cloud IaaS pricing from Redmonk, show just how insane cloud pricing has become. If your job requires you to read these reports, good luck. For the rest of us, Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady distilled the pricing trends down to this: 'HP offers the best compute value and instance sizes for the dollar. Google offers the best value for memory, but to get there it appears to have sacrificed compute. AWS is king in value for disk and it appears no one else is even trying to come close. Microsoft is taking the 'middle of the road,' never offering the best or worst pricing.'"
This is not slang. This is an attempt at forcing slang and that is what makes it moronic. I am fully aware of the evolution of language and this is not it.
No, it does not say the same thing. It makes it look like the sentence was cut off because there was a trailing verb. There are perfectly good nouns that would fit that spot and actually be descriptive. Alternatively, they could have actually written what they meant instead of trying to "spice" it up and make it look hip. If they wanted to talk about compute capacity or compute units they should have said that or used the nouns.
Not all language "evolution" helps clarity nor is it always a good thing. Sometimes it should still be corrected. Marketing departments should almost always be fought with full force.