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"Cloud" handles the problem of people who buy based on who takes them out to lunch, buy based on wanting to have bragging rights, buy based on the idea that "no
by johnklos 6y ago
"Cloud" handles the problem of people who buy based on who takes them out to lunch, buy based on wanting to have bragging rights, buy based on the idea that "nobody ever got fired for buying Dell / HP / whatever".
Sure, you can buy and colocate a dual processor Xeon Platinum bought from Dell, but when you can get significantly more than twice the performance per dollar buying an Epyc system, it's stupid to do it.
Stop comparing "cloud" to bad business decisions, and start comparing it to business decisions which would be made by people who want to get things done without ego.
- ralph84 6y agoWhat makes you think Amazon and Microsoft don't take customers out to lunch (pre-covid)?
- fakedang 6y agoLol exactly. Amazon and Microsoft always take potential customers out for lunch (or dinner). My fiancee and I have attended a number of "Azure" dinners, where Microsoft funded our expenses. The only qualm was that we had to sit through lectures where salespersons would go on about how Xamarin was the next hot shit, which bored her, a medical doctor, to death, and managed a few chuckles from me.