On: Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud

[nwallin]

> no os choice, no hardware choice, slow provisioning

These are probably positives from large org internal perspective.

"We want to switch x from y to z." "We can't. In fact we want to switch u from z to y."

> If they have 50 000 IT employees

BofA has 205k employees in 2019 as per Wikipedia. No way 1/4 of them are in IT.

[julienfr112 → nwallin]

I was surprised by how many IT employee there are in banks. But please, provide your own estimation.

[mcv → julienfr112]

Having worked at several banks, I would not be surprised at all if a 200k employee bank had 50,000 developers.