I realize that I'm late to this party, but I learned about the phenomenon of CapEx vs OpEx when the small company I worked for came under new ownership in the e

I realize that I'm late to this party, but I learned about the phenomenon of CapEx vs OpEx when the small company I worked for came under new ownership in the early 90's. We made relatively inexpensive light-industrial electronic controls and the new owner, a former CFO from a public utility, came up with the "brilliant" idea to allow customers to lease hardware from us vs buying it outright since they might have more money in their Operations budget as opposed to Capital. In theory, not a bad idea. In practice, the only business likely to want to lease a $200 item is probably close to bankruptcy.