No way. I vehemently disagree. When a company reached a certain mass, hardware cost is a factor that is considered but not a big factor. The bigger problems a

No way. I vehemently disagree. When a company reached a certain mass, hardware cost is a factor that is considered but not a big factor. The bigger problems are lost opportunity costs and unnecessary churns. Businesses lose a lot when the product launch is delayed by a year simply because the hardware arrived late or have too many defects (Ask your hardware fulfillment people how many defective RAM and SSD they got per new shipment). Churn can cost the business a lot as well. For example, imagine the model that everyone been using is trained in a Mac Pro under XYZ desk. And then when XYZ quit, s/he never properly backup the code and the model. Bare metal allows for sloppiness that the cloud cannot afford to allow. Accountability and ownership is a lot more apparent in the cloud.