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Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years (arstechnica.com)
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Note: the Ars Technica article links to a blogpost by Lydia Leong, a cloud computing analyst at Gartner, the URL seems to be broken. I believe they wanted to reference this blog post.

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[–] Speculater 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they rely on the so called "tech debt" or on-perm knowledge to retire or move on, then crank up the pricing. Everyone who went to the cloud is going to get squeezed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

already happening and the company I was at reaction was different cloud provider which required so much work to move between they are never going to see the labor savings. the cloud should theoretically give them.