• themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Because if you throw enough money at them, they’ll trip over themselves trying to fix your production critical issue in 4 hours or less, and that’s valuable to business because they get to go “it’s not our fault the site was down and we lost $2 million, it’s our vendor’s support team that was inadequate”

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, at a certain scale you’re not paying for the technology… you’re paying for a scapegoat.