You might be on the point, efficient designs are bad for cloud providers. On the other hand, shitty designs that get hacked are bad PR for them.
Thing is, none of it matters. Bottom line matters.
They care to attract company decision makers. Decision makers are engineers in small to medium businesses, and managers in big ones. Sadly, its the big ones that matter for bottom line. So target is mid management, flashy power point presentations and 'conferences' that allow for justified travel and stay.
Good mid management, with tech background, exists, but is a minority.
Not all is lost, truth is out there (c) Mulder :))
Thing is, none of it matters. Bottom line matters.
They care to attract company decision makers. Decision makers are engineers in small to medium businesses, and managers in big ones. Sadly, its the big ones that matter for bottom line. So target is mid management, flashy power point presentations and 'conferences' that allow for justified travel and stay.
Good mid management, with tech background, exists, but is a minority.
Not all is lost, truth is out there (c) Mulder :))