I've been in IT for over 18 years, and the one irrefutable fact remains: IT people gravitate to what works, what's stable, and what is cost effective. Its not some "dogmatic" position just because someone is a Windows engineer, or if a DBA likes a particular database; in the professional world operators will choose the path of least resistance and makes their quality of life its highest.
Not all services will be supplanted by the cloud, mostly because of the cost of services.
And finally, Open Source matters because it is the fundamental technology that CREATED the cloud.
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