I'll bet that most Ferrari mechanics have never owned a Ferrari, but they are qualified to work on them. Ownership doesn't give you experience...time under the

I'll bet that most Ferrari mechanics have never owned a Ferrari, but they are qualified to work on them. Ownership doesn't give you experience...time under the hood does. I have spun up thousands of servers on Rackspace, GoGrid, and Amazon, and I've learned a ton because of it. I don't need to own the physical hardware to get that experience. If he had owned a fully-managed box (where someone else sets it up and maintains it), would that make him more qualified? I think not