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by mathattack 6y ago
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“100% growth in incremental recurring revenue” doesn’t say much if they are churning a lot of existing customers. (That they chose such a double-speak revenue number perhaps says a lot). My impression was that DevOps software like this is very hard to pull out once you’ve embedded it in the org.
Am I missing something?
- nixgeek 6y agoThey gave the milk away for free. You only needed to pay if you wanted their super-opinionated delivery pipeline or needed lots of support using Chef. I worked in a couple places which used Chef and paid for 1-2 years but eventually terminated the commercial relationship.