Yep, I can create the same outcome as the France / Germany cloud for a fraction of the cost at about ... £25M.
Pay me £25M, I'll sit on a beach drinking G&Ts and then in five years give you a call to say "we failed".
Job done.
Pay me £25M, I'll sit on a beach drinking G&Ts and then in five years give you a call to say "we failed".
Job done.
X : Don't you think it'll cost more than £25M?
Me : For me to sit on a beach drinking G&Ts and then to give you a call saying "we failed"? No, I'll do that for £25M.
Of course, you can decide to spend many many billions to achieve the same outcome which I'm sure they will.
Me : For me to sit on a beach drinking G&Ts and then to give you a call saying "we failed"? No, I'll do that for £25M.
Of course, you can decide to spend many many billions to achieve the same outcome which I'm sure they will.
The pity is ... they have so many more important things to focus on. For example, Germany really needs to get a handle on its pension problem. You can't just keep ignoring it and hoping it goes away or that large numbers of people magically disappear.
X : Didn't you offer that £25M phone call before?
Me : Yep, it was $25M for a telco, in 2011 (?) on their planned private cloud effort in excess of $1Bn. They didn't accept, they blew the lot. One of the execs did phone me up later to tell me they wished they had paid me instead.
Me : Yep, it was $25M for a telco, in 2011 (?) on their planned private cloud effort in excess of $1Bn. They didn't accept, they blew the lot. One of the execs did phone me up later to tell me they wished they had paid me instead.
