We currently run an Azure environment. I’ve got a bunch of data scientists running their own environment in our tenant and they’re spinning stuff up daily. I’ve pointed out that every time they spin up a new instance of something the meter is running, but they don’t seem to care. Not sure who’s handling the accounting side of their stuff, but this just started a month or two ago, so I’m guessing they haven’t gotten the first invoice from Microsoft yet.
-D
On Jun 18, 2021, at 10:43 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Cap-ex vs Op-ex. When I first got out of college everything was supposed to be cap-ex. Buy hardware so we didn't have to spend people time on stuff. Now you're supposed to turn everything into op-ex. I've got a whole bunch of VM servers that would be great to train on but rather than getting me a $200/mo dedicated internet line we spend $2,000/mo in Microsoft Azure...
-Curt
On Friday, June 18, 2021, 8:24:46 PM EDT, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
But eventually someone has to buy the cars, which is less likely if they are overpriced.
I'm sure it's some variant of the shit where they will pay more in operating
costs, often many times over, rather than do a better job up front, because
it would involve a slightly higher capital cost. "Hey, not MY budget." Even
if one corporate entity is who is paying ALL costs in the end.
So, how you rig the game will result in how successful it is overall, over time.
Ultimately I'm sure it's why big companies die, and small ones are formed.
They get ossified and inefficient, and the new small sharks swoop in and
eat the lunch, and eventually the carcass, of the big fish. Ad infinitum.
-- Jim
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