There’s also a lot of politics around OpEx vs capitalEx. In prior firms we’d have to go hat-in-hand for $3M of hardware every 3 years on an upgrade cycle. Of

There’s also a lot of politics around OpEx vs capitalEx. In prior firms we’d have to go hat-in-hand for $3M of hardware every 3 years on an upgrade cycle. Of course few were around long enough to be on the requesting or approving side of this upgrade cycle and it would drag out painfully. Sometimes we’d try to get creative and go more just-in-time and come back for $500K every 6 months but the pain would just be more frequent. On the other hand, $150k/mo slowly growing adds up to more in the longterm, but no senior manager ever has to approve a single $500K-$3M purchase request.