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by Bucephalus355 2772 days ago
This is very true. There are lots of gamification the providers play to “juice” the numbers.

Here’s one example (apologies for picking on IBM). So IBM will sell you a million dollars of software for $1, and then force you to buy $600,000 of cloud even if you never use it. You don’t complain because you got a 40% discount, and IBM can “book” 600k in cloud revenue.