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Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by duaoebg on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:37PM (#22497239)
Lol, I do this. My customers would often try to run my software on dusty old servers and then complain that it's slow, so now I just send them the hardware for free.
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Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by hinkley on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:10PM (#22498304)
Different team, we did a cluster install and they were getting 10% of our advertised transaction rate. Something was clearly off. I commented “did they plug the whole thing into a 10Mb hub?”

They had. We sent someone eight timezones away to find that out.

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