Comment by burnte

The software and ongoing costs make it a very different discussion. I can show how $100k capex saves 3 or 4x that same amount in opex. 2 years ago just before leaving a company I moved systems where we went from $1.8m/yr hosted to $400k/yr all in. Gave us better performance, faster problem resolution, and we had more flexibility because we didn't need to fit into other people's systems.