Having been through this cycle a few times at different companies, the bean counters always love OPEX until you move everything to OPEX causing that annual budget to explode then all of a sudden they want to "Reduce costs", so people start shifting things to CAPEX until that budget explodes then they want to "Reduce annual capital spend" so people start shifting thing back to opex.....
And so the cycle goes, over and over again
bean counters and MBA's live in this mythical land where $100,000 over 5 years or $20,000 a year is some how different
Having been through this cycle a few times at different companies, the bean counters always love OPEX until you move everything to OPEX causing that annual budget to explode then all of a sudden they want to "Reduce costs", so people start shifting things to CAPEX until that budget explodes then they want to "Reduce annual capital spend" so people start shifting thing back to opex.....
And so the cycle goes, over and over again
bean counters and MBA's live in this mythical land where $100,000 over 5 years or $20,000 a year is some how different