Sachin Aggarwal, founder of StackGen, explains why hyperscalers focus on hardware, availability, and their own stacks rather than solving cross-cloud enterprise software problems.
“They probably won't because they'll stick to their own stack. And they'll always get limited to what they can do for their stack. They will never do a cross stack. Plus they will never go downstream to solve the problem.”
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