IME, business "leaders" follow the crowd even more than venture capitalists. If AWS gets frequent glowing praise in CFO Magazine, then by golly, we're going to

IME, business "leaders" follow the crowd even more than venture capitalists. If AWS gets frequent glowing praise in CFO Magazine, then by golly, we're going to move to the cloud and "save a bundle". Make enough similar decisions without actually being able to properly cost estimate the intangibles of what else is lost when those couple dozen experienced systems engineers move on, and you end up being valued at one-tenth of what you used to be within a few years (as is the enterprise where I was such an engineer).