Comment by bonesss

With Azure they can bill you for the licenses and the computing platform, while also ensuring a pretty impressive degree of lock-in once the platform is sold.

Not only are their incentives still out of alignment, the massive consultant eco-system they maintain is still incentivized to push the same-old lock in in a new costume.

SOAs are like partners in bed... it's not just about who you're sleeping with, you gotta think about who they have slept with too.