So true! It boggles the mind but don’t under estimate the PR and marketing machine by some of the big companies. There is good reason they bypass government’s own tech people. I’ve seen a case where a big company flew out negotitaors especially to deal with senior officials. The back room tech sys admin just does not get to see his/her own senior officials. And yes, the costs for the cloud based subsciptions is way more ove rthe long term, and worse, extracting yourself and your data is not easy at all when supposedly a contract period is supposed to end. You can have your data back but good luck on using it in any meaningful way…