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This wouldn't really "cleanup" the CapEx though, would it? You still need bare metal on the client end. Your licence costs just go from ~£90-100 for a key (no

This wouldn't really "cleanup" the CapEx though, would it? You still need bare metal on the client end. Your licence costs just go from ~£90-100 for a key (no idea what MS gives you on bulk rates) to £20/month... Unless they are doing hourly/per second billing and you have some well tuned scripts that won't screw over Jenkins in accounting when he's working on the big report one evening, I just don't see the cost savings.

naikrovek 5y ago
there is no cost savings, just like there isn't with most (all?) cloud services, and that isn't the intent of those services, or this one. the intent is to lower one-time, up-front costs as much as possible, and spread that cost of entry out over multiple fiscal years as a smaller repeating subscription fee, even if the overall cost increases. service vendors, like AWS and Microsoft, LOVE more constant, predictable, and even income, and businesses love lowering one-time expenses, even if it costs more overall in the long run to do it. yes, thin clients (at a minimum) are needed, but those are cheap, easily deployed, and last for years.
- tehbeard 5y ago
  Hmm, thanks for the info. I'd have normally thought the goal would be to minimize expenses.