Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
by wmf on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:30AM
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Enterprise IT is overpriced so you can negotiate a 50% discount. Unfortunately negotiating isn't worth it for something like a pair of DIMMs.
Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
by attila-lendvai on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:36PM
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Enterprise IT is overpriced because it's mostly people spending other people's money... which usually has a lot of turbulence in its flow...
Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
by thewebguyd on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:58AM
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> Trouble with enterprise is that the people buying care about the technology, but not the cost
Enterprise also ruins it for small/medium businesses as well, at least those with dedicated internal IT departments who do care about both the technology and the cost. We are left with unreliable consumer-grade hardware, or prohibitively expensive enterprise hardware.
There's very little in between. This market is also underserved with software/SaaS as well with the SSO Tax and whatnot. There's a huge gap between "I'm taking the owner's CC down to best buy" and "Enterprise" that gets screwed over.
Some businesses (and governments) try and unify their purchasing, but this seems to make things worse, with the purchasing department both not understanding technology and being outwitted by vendors.