alt Hacker NewsThe same cost savings could be captured by SaaS. Potentially not by incumbents, but by up and comers.
If you can spend $10K/year to keep your in house one alive but $5K/year on the new SaaS option, you stop building your own again.
The same cost savings could be captured by SaaS. Potentially not by incumbents, but by up and comers.
If you can spend $10K/year to keep your in house one alive but $5K/year on the new SaaS option, you stop building your own again.
Possibly, but I don’t think it’s certain. For a SaaS to capture, you’d need a forward deployed engineer model. And then I would have ten different FDEs to liaise with, none of whom know my domain.
Vs if I contract a shop, then I have a dedicated team ramped up on my domain who then can vet infra providers and choose the best tech. So potentially still some SaaS, but probably shifting more to PaaS.
Similar to how you don’t hire your Salesforce or SAP contractors from these companies, I would predict this model spreads to other platforms too, and may make OSS viable in more places.