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And it’s a shame, because they didn’t need to be that way. They used to have some of the best tech; they still own some impressive products. But their constant game of “raise prices, reduce actual delivery, lie about it all” has antagonised so many people, that is hard to see how they can continue.

They could piss off us nerds and survive, but they’ve now lost a lot of credibility among C-level execs too, at this point. And to cap it off, they’re trying to force customers to make big migrations to cloud products that are simply not as good as the existing on-prem versions, just so they can toot inflated cloud numbers to Wall Street analysts.

And again, they didn’t have to: just sell both cloud and on-prem and let your customers choose.