I'm not arguing for autarky, I'm arguing for maintaining a strong negotiating position to keep from being taken advantage of. Fuel is fungible, and electricity is provided by regulated monopolies who are forbidden to price-discriminate, so the same issues don't arise as when you're outsourcing your core business processes to Microsoft.
I don't think FedEx re-hiring a competent sysadmin team and rebuilding data centers once they've lost that knowledge is merely a question of spending enough money on the problem; it's the kind of high-risk IT project that often sinks companies.
I don't think FedEx re-hiring a competent sysadmin team and rebuilding data centers once they've lost that knowledge is merely a question of spending enough money on the problem; it's the kind of high-risk IT project that often sinks companies.