The comments on that excellent post are illustrating what I think of as the "blind men with the elephant" problem. So many different kinds of academic institutions, large and small, public and private, well-funded and in-subscription-cancel-mode-every-year, tend to approach this topic as if their experience, mission, budget constraints, etc. are the norm.

What Rick described absolutely applies to my institution: small, public, with student fees providing an increasing share of our operating budget every year.