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Weird criticism, for anything involving CapEx it will always require an RFQ and quote. You're not buying a bag of peanuts and they will likely price it differe
by DoingIsLearning 3y ago
Weird criticism, for anything involving CapEx it will always require an RFQ and quote.
You're not buying a bag of peanuts and they will likely price it differently if you're buying 1x or 500x.
- SanderNL 3y agoWhy though? Quantity based pricing is not hard to express in a table. What is so different about CapEx and a bag of peanuts that defies even providing an approximate range? Number of zeroes, no? I don’t like it, but it is the norm sadly. It’s just a signal for “it’s expensive and if you even care about the number we don’t want to talk with you”.
- darkwater 3y ago> Why though? Quantity based pricing is not hard to express in a table. It is not, but when it's written publicly you cannot send different prices to different customers, depending on who the customer is
- gizmo 3y agoIn fairness, the blogpost argues that owning is more economical than renting. Everybody knows what cloud compute costs and if this more economical then maybe there should be some price indicator?
- wmf 3y agoYeah, the price has to be somewhere between a Supermicro rack and an Outpost rack.