> That's part of your cost. Except, I get to share one person across several systems. Simplified example: $100k/year for a Linux engineer That same person c

> That's part of your cost. Except, I get to share one person across several systems. Simplified example: $100k/year for a Linux engineer That same person can upgrade 10 Linux servers (on-premise company) or 1000 linux servers (cloud provider). It may take the 1000 linux servers slightly longer, but the cost to service is still significantly lower. There's also a lot less variability in skills of the Linux engineer. I don't think people quite understand that cloud computing is a consolidation and elimination of backend computing jobs, not the increase. The only reason there is an increase in the market, is because the overall pie is growing.