Section 00Notes
Notes
Short pieces on the parts of this business that customers ask about twice. No news, no product announcements, nothing written to be found by a search engine.
Section 01Index
01
Why we hold no stock
Procurement
Inventory in server hardware is a bet on the future, and the customer pays for the losing side of it.
02
Reading a server quotation
Procurement
Where the money hides in a bill of materials, and the six lines that decide whether two quotations are comparable at all.
03
Rent or buy: the arithmetic
Rental
The break-even is not where most people put it, and the answer changes with the length of the workload rather than its size.