> Just insane what MBAs are willing to do to a product to squeeze short term profits. Even more insane that this country largely sees these people as a benefit to society and not the vultures they are.

I do understand the argument that it can be considered as a benefit for society if companies that have a very incompetent management that falls for this kind of trap of getting locked in by some vendor without having an emergency escape plan available get milked or even get bust. :-)

The cloud see them as a benefit, that’s for sure. They are frothing at the mouth for the customers to migrate their workloads.

When the country is run by vultures, they celebrate the discovery of new successful ways to vult.