European management culture is very business-first. Chances are that things went more or less like this: - Management sees cost spike, asks Sysadmins - S

European management culture is very business-first. Chances are that things went more or less like this: - Management sees cost spike, asks Sysadmins - Sysadmins investigate and say "not our fault, it's them pesky commie devs" - Management rings up legal, shenanigans ensue Now they've been publicly bitch-slapped, it's likely that management will do a bit of a sing and dance and then let engineers talk to engineers, while they piss off to some expensive restaurant at the company's expense.