Not so sure I agree, Klem.
In both company cars and enterprise hardware, resell value is an important factor in making the purchasing decision.
No fleet manager will buy Italian, regardless of how much the sales reps fancy an Alfa, as the fleet manager knows that he'll get nothing in three years time when the warranty runs out, while if he specifies German he'll get back a significant proportion.
The same with hardware. We're changing from P5 AIX machines to virtual Linux on x86 precisely because we'll be able to sell the x86 blades when they're written off as assets in three years, while the Power architecture second hand market has tanked (and a new machine is 15 mil D. Kroner).
So it's a marketing issue.
Can you imagine buying a car with non transferable ownership?
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