FIND THE LEAK. PRICE THE EXIT.
We publish the expensive-service pattern, the lower-cost fix, and the numbers behind the comparison. No invented savings: vendor claims are labelled, reported cases are identified, and public examples are never presented as our client results.
Request a stack cost auditJAVA LICENSING · NOV 4, 2026
One chargeable Oracle JDK can price the entire workforce. At 3,000 employees, Oracle’s published tier works out to $378,000 a year. The exit is a certified OpenJDK runtime swap—not a rewrite.
Read the migration guide →VIRTUALIZATION · NOV 4, 2026
Broadcom’s per-core bundles turned renewals into a forcing event. Compare a reported $350/core/year VCF list price with Proxmox’s €0 licence and see where a migration does—and does not—pay.
Read the exit guide →STORAGE COSTS · NOV 4, 2026
A public B2 example fell from $1,200 to $26 a month after infinite versioning was replaced with 30-day retention. Here is how to audit B2, R2, and S3 before old data becomes a permanent subscription.
Read the audit guide →SUPPORT COSTS · NOV 4, 2026
Vendor support runs about 22% of licence price every year, forever. Third-party support benchmarks at roughly half — from the first invoice, with zero system change.
Read the switch guide →ATLASSIAN DEADLINE · NOV 4, 2026
Atlassian published the deadline themselves. Cloud is not cheaper per seat — the saving is the cleanup that cuts the tier you land on, done before the 2028 rush.
Read the deadline guide →Audit → pilot → migration → verification. We start read-only, prove the saving on one bounded workload, move in waves, and verify the result against the next real bill or licence position.
Post your own savings example: found a renewal shock, a lifecycle leak, or a migration that paid? Email the service, old bill, fix, and new bill to [email protected]. Please do not send credentials or private invoices.