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LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way. Formed in 2023 when Yahoo! Japan …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    Trollface

    "164 OpenStack clusters"

    You've already lost the war.

    Submit and drink the kool-aid.

  2. Fred Dibnah
    Unhappy

    Yahoo!

    The! Register!! Has! Forgotten! How! To! Write! Yahoo!!-Based! Headlines!

    1. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
      Pint

      Re: Yahoo!

      The article is by Simon Sherwood. APAC editor.

      May be a change from Australian beer to the one that Refreshes the Parts Other Beers Cannot Reach will have the desired effect.

      https://www.creativereview.co.uk/refreshes-the-parts-other-beers-cannot-reach/

      1. Ken Shabby Silver badge
        Pint

        Re: Yahoo!

        I would rather take part in a “Guess whose piss this is?” Contest

        1. Paul Crawford Silver badge
          Pint

          Re: Yahoo!

          Horse, chilled.

      2. ssharwood

        Re: Yahoo!

        Sharwood here - think curry, not forests.

        For a story directly about Yahoo I would Use! The! Old! Format! But this one touches on Yahoo! Japan only, and all those !'s add a lot of visual noise.

        I also suspect that kids these days have no idea Yahoo! even exists ...

        1. IGotOut Silver badge

          Re: Yahoo!

          "I also suspect that kids these days have no idea Yahoo! even exists ..."

          So what else do they use use for shitty sites that demand a valid email address?

          1. DavidRa

            Re: Yahoo!

            Spam is what the Gmail account is for. Actual people get a private address on a proper domain.

  3. that one in the corner Silver badge

    Three Pillars

    Of the obvious!

    The things that can go phut the hardest are the things you want to be able to work around.

    Good to know they did Systems 101, that is more than some manage.

  4. An_Old_Dog Silver badge

    I Rather Liked it the Other Way

    At uni, our mainframe went down.

    It came up again, five hours later.

    I logged back in, and there was my edit session, and my electronic document, just as it at the time of the crash.

    I suppose modern service users are compulsive service users (social media, etc.), feel they gotta connect now, now, now! and don't use those services to input/edit/store anything important, anyway.

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