[jcgrillo]

> Management very often trust the sales and marketing departments of big vendors more than their own staff.

They're getting kickbacks from cloud vendors. Prove me wrong.

[r_lee]

not sure if this is a thing with Cloud vendors, but e.g. in Finance, you'll definitely get the opportunity to call your rep over for free fancy dinners or whatever you want, because those are "customer meetings"

better than nothing, I don't blame em.

[jcgrillo]

> better than nothing, I don't blame em.

Money ain't got no owners, only spenders.