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Is the cost of GCP/Azure also deducted from GSuite/Office profits?
by leereeves 7y ago
Is the cost of GCP/Azure also deducted from GSuite/Office profits?
- yyyk 7y agoI suspect it is, though I haven't delved in their financials to prove it. Giving a different internal pricing to their own product could be constructed as an anti-competitive action, and someone would have sued them for that. If they merely didn't report it [that is, didn't count it in Office/GSuite costs], it would sound like hosting for free which again could be considered anti-competitive, so that sounds unlikely to me. My original comment was just saying that there's no good reason not to count GSuite/Office in respective GCP/Azure marketshare. Obviously these cloud-products could have been hosted in different clouds, but they aren't.