"All they care about is how many users you can bring or how many zeroes you can put on the contract." Which is influenced by the subsidies you get. Some indust

"All they care about is how many users you can bring or how many zeroes you can put on the contract." Which is influenced by the subsidies you get. Some industries more than others. The extreme case is the agricultural industry in the USA. Many of the big wheat firms would not exist without the vast subsidies offered by the government. For those firms, Oracle or Microsoft are only talking to you because you've gotten money from the government.