So the thing is, yes, that&#x27;s true. Lots of companies can get by with Cisco&#x2F;Dell&#x2F;EMC stuff and don&#x27;t need the ultra-high-end datacenters of Amazon&#x2F;Google.<p>And if Cisco&#x2F;Dell&#x2F;EMC stuff was bargain-priced and the ultra-high-end stuff was expensive, well, there you go.<p>But the problem is, if you want your stuff hosted on Amazon-class hardware&#x2F;network topologies, it&#x27;s really cheap to do so with AWS (or Azure, or whatever).  And the Cisco&#x2F;Dell&#x2F;EMC stuff is painfully, ruinously expensive.<p>If the high-end thing is also the cheap thing, what&#x27;s the rationale for buying the low-end, expensive thing?