Comment by ed_elliott_asc
2 months ago
Won’t all they need to do is say “best in class, latest models, fastest” and wine and dine a few execs and those enterprise deals will be signed?
In this case the people tasked with using the product won’t actually mind.
Yes, exactly that. Be Azure and Office 365 and Sharepoint and AWS where everyone else is Debian Stable on a USB thumbdrive.
Office 365? Ew, Google docs, please.
No one is getting fired for using SotA.
If the price difference is 2x? Sure.
If the price difference is 50x? No way.
Tell that to Oracle
Accenture says "yeah totally CEOs will pay a lot for literal nothing"
So long as the benefit:cost ratio is still sufficiently high, I don't think anyone gets fired for not scrimping. Better to encourage positive EV behaviour by your employees than to scare them away by firing them for not being perfectly optimal.
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Laughs in 2005-era VMWare and EMC...
Well, getting laid off during the bankruptcy spiral is a form of firing.
But that is months away, so not my problem?