Things get really confusing when you also use SAP R/3, migrating it to S/4: "So the S/4 gets some of its data from R/3 via S3 and writes reports to R2 which are used for a consolidated view in R/3 as long as the analysis isn't migrated to S/4 which will get all data via S3."
This is some great content marketing by Taloflow.<p>Having not paid attention to this story I didn’t realize they chose R because it was one letter behind S in the alphabet.<p>If Cloudflare was a smaller company they’d probably get sued pretty fast. That has happened for much sillier and vain reasons. But I doubt there’s much to gain via the courts in the current state of things. This seems to be standard price competition that all commodity like products resort to.
O(1)?<p>Edit: the site didn't make it, I just think the stylized name was cool.<p>O for Object and (1) cause it's fast.<p>Or it would be. I'm not building it.
Wouldn't T4 have been a better name? sure it does create the risk of a U5, but prequels are not usually better. (Unless you love endless discussion about intergalactic politics).
What I like about the name R2 is the statement that they are aiming to make something better than S3. These are the kinds of competitions that benefit the consumers a ton. I don’t care who wins as long as things continue to get better.
R2 is marketed as "one less than S3!"<p>I used the exact same tagline for a project open sourced in 2019: <a href="https://github.com/pachyderm/s2/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pachyderm/s2/</a><p>So there you go VCs, I can market as well as cloudflare. Money please!
Reminds me of HAL Laboratory (videogame developer involved with the original Super Smash Bros. and its sequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee) who did the same thing except with IBM.
Though funny (kinda hilarious at A-41 actually) this applet misses the point that R2 was chosen because CloudFlare was undercutting Amazon in every way possible, including the product name.
If this trend continues, one day they'll pay me to store my data on their service. Imagine being paid to generate random hashes and store them on the internet. ;)
Decentralized Cloud Storage services, like Storj DCS – are really interesting when compared to R2/S3. They are compatible with AWS S3, but with better economics than both R2 and S3 (1/10 price of amazon) - <a href="https://docs.storj.io/dcs/getting-started/quickstart-aws-sdk-and-hosted-gateway-mt" rel="nofollow">https://docs.storj.io/dcs/getting-started/quickstart-aws-sdk...</a>
That's one direction to take the series.
OR S3 needs to add P0, and R2 needs to add D2.
Can't wait till AZ16, invests in Z-16, and releases their S1.
Well logically it's P1 next, right? An AI that takes over the world? <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1414021.The_Adolescence_of_P_1" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1414021.The_Adolescence_...</a>
Interesting!<p><pre><code> var o=r.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED.ReactCurrentOwner,u=Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty
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Side note: I must say, Taloflow really knows how to capitalize on that HN traffic flow. :)
I think we could all see a pattern in the product names but I was hoping for more:<p><pre><code> EMC Q1 (using Dell servers?)
Google P0
iCloud O-1</code></pre>