[j45]

You have a great point about finding cost efficiencies - there was a time cloud was cheaper.

Maybe it's an understanding that doesn't change because the decision makers were non-techincal people (when finance oversees IT despite not understanding it)

Virtualizing and then sharing a dedicated server as a VPS was a big step forward.

Only, hardware kept getting cheaper and faster, as well as internet.

[vidarh]

> when finance oversees IT despite not understanding it

... and when IT often do not even get to see the spend, and/or isn't expected to.

I've had clients where only finance had permissions to get at the billing reports, and engineering only ever saw the billing data when finance were sufficiently shocked by a bill to ask them to dig into it - at which point they cared for long enough to get finance off their backs, and then stopped caring again.

[j45]

Unsure how I missed this.

Great points.

Overseeing things they don’t understand and wanting to manage and direct it feels unnatural for finance to do to other departments.

Maybe this was more common for businesses with stable business processes that aren’t evolving.

Covid and now AI will ensure change is constant and where a practice is outdated so will the organizations become.