Even if it doesn't cost you in monthly payments to a tech company it still costs you in "our own SRE expertise to run our own open stack cloud" so salaries, ben

Even if it doesn't cost you in monthly payments to a tech company it still costs you in "our own SRE expertise to run our own open stack cloud" so salaries, benefits, 401k contributions, etc. > I can’t wait until 20 years from now when all of the proprietary shit looks ridiculous in hindsight. I'd posit that in 20 years there will still be tech which is more efficiently managed by a central provider, rather than having each company hiring their own independent expertise.