Acci (21:09:54)
The client already had an Azure infrastructure. In theory, you should then leverage that investment into Azure to host further on-premises workloads on Azure. Doesn't work when a competitor easily undercuts the Azure pricing for Container Services.

mirrorbird (21:05:54)
why did they only want your lot to do Azure pricing?

Acci (21:04:39)
@mirrorbird: I am pretty sure that is how the competing offer was five times cheaper. The client thought the price was very fishy, but they had to go with it.

mirrorbird (21:04:34)
(bada bing bada boom!)

mirrorbird (21:04:29)
unfortunately it always crashed if you tried to use the MS search engine

Acci (21:03:26)
Woah, I never head of Bada.

mirrorbird (21:02:41)
tbh you could underquote, do it on inadequate spec, and then get more work upgrading it to something reasonable (i suppose! i'm not a salesman)

zoi (21:01:26)
it was probably on par with windows phone, but you can't create an ecosystem if you don't have critical mass

zoi (21:01:00)
samsung threw phones and money at us to port our app to Bada. it didn't last long. https://en.m.wikipedia.org

Acci (21:00:55)
Next time I will calculate an offer with Amiga servers. Who needs CPU, RAM, storage, backup, encryption, and modern authentication, anyway? A couple of A3000s connected via 56k modems will be just fine.