No one ever got fired for using Microsoft for email. Can't help feeling they should be.
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@paul_ipv6 I've always been surprised by the larger ecosystem of small IT providers that became part of Microsoft's network of partners.
Especially when every now and then Microsoft fucks them over. Although I suppose there's always a new generation of Small IT providers who cover the churn.
i've known some of these folks. MS is very good at balancing the cost of all the licensing, etc. with the fee structures such folks can charge. it's also really common RFP fodder at SMB bids to require said MS certs/partnerships.
the customers are very sticky, since it's such a delicate teetering mess that customers fear to touch or change anything as long as costs are predictable. they just budget for that and never question what alternatives might really be cheaper.
Used to say that no one every got fired for using Cisco, but even that is old as the hills.
@Rassilon My version of that was IBM.
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we can wish... but somehow, microsoft keeps fooling orgs into thinking MS is way cheaper than any other alternative, hiding just how much staff time and other hidden expenses you wind up stuck with.