Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud
by Bucephalus355 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:56AM
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This is very true. There are lots of gamification the providers play to “juice” the numbers.
Here’s one example (apologies for picking on IBM). So IBM will sell you a million dollars of software for $1, and then force you to buy $600,000 of cloud even if you never use it. You don’t complain because you got a 40% discount, and IBM can “book” 600k in cloud revenue.
Here’s one example (apologies for picking on IBM). So IBM will sell you a million dollars of software for $1, and then force you to buy $600,000 of cloud even if you never use it. You don’t complain because you got a 40% discount, and IBM can “book” 600k in cloud revenue.