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Re:Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employe... by skeeter2020 on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:56PM (#34499469)
>> They estimate he saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars... tens of thousands of servers he decommissioned

Sounds a little far-fetched. Slack, Airbnb and Netflix spend about 6M, 17M and 28M on AWS monthly; to SAVE "hundreds of millions" the company would need to be ridiculously large and inefficient.

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Re:Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employe... by Foobar8568 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:06AM (#34499993)
Or used a mix of oracle/sun/IBM hardwares and the like. I can imagine easily 9 digits yearly budget including licenses.
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Re:Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employe... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:26AM (#34501488)
GP didn't provide a denominator. Assuming a year, which is typical for such calculations, your example figures become: Slack: 72M, 204M, 336M. Two out of the three are already in "hundreds of millions of dollars", per year.

GP could also be talking about savings over expected life time of the servers if they were not decommissioned, which could easily be 5+ years.

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