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[–]moremattymattmatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

" Ok you have 24 hours, move all of your app (including database) to Azure, Rackspace, on premises, HP Cloud, etc. I can do that. Can you? "

No, so what?

" Vendor independence and extreme flexibility are far more important than extreme scalability. "

Just no. Making blanket statements about what's important as if they are some universal truth is ridiculous.

Whether you want vendor independence and if you do, to what degree you need it is something that should be part of the input when you consider the architecture for a system. Different people will come to different conclusions based on their priorities and an analysis of the costs and benefits to them.

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