As a witness to an outsourcing followed some years later by an insourcing, I can infer that cloud providers (which are essentially outsourcers) can and will lowball companies to get their business on the platform. Then comes the big contract renewal. A customer's bargaining position is weaker during renewal because of the time, risk and expense of moving to another provider or, God help them, bringing the process back in-house.
Robert Crawford Abstract Evolutions LLC (210) 913-3822 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 12:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: Cloud may be overpriced compared to on-premises systems It would be interesting to understand if the early adopters of cloud were the beneficiaries of aggressive discount pricing and now find themselves trapped on those platforms. For a long time storage was “unlimited and not expensive” but now you’re starting to see the reality of costs factor into the cloud offerings. Agree on the religious undertones comment. Many people wanted to be the cool kids and move to the cloud. Those architects are likely long gone but the impact of those decisions live on. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org +1-919-656-0564 PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 Facebook <https://facebook.com/matt.hogstrom> LinkedIn <https://linkedin/in/mhogstrom> Twitter <https://twitter.com/hogstrom> “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." — Hogstrom > On Aug 7, 2023, at 12:51 PM, Dave Jones <d...@vsoft-software.com> wrote: > > Savvy architects consider all the options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
