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there is a threshold of general intelligence past which the saaspocalypse will occur I don't think we're near it but I can see why the market would start to price in the chance

i think the magic excel controller might be fairly disruptive as it is, but services that have accrued enough data probably have some stickiness

if it happens in a remote future, itd probably be too gradual a process to be an apocalypse are slow apocalypses a thing? 🤣

Our clients are very actively looking to move back to on-prem. The problem is their own support of SaaS-only delivery has left them without an on-prem license/install they can purchase. Our client base is medical, hospitality and logistics/warehousing.

An example; we have a 40-location hotel chain that moved OFF on-prem Opera/Micros, to a 'cloud' alternative, got hacked repeatedly, then tried to move back to Opera/Micros to discover Oracle wouldn't give them a license.

that's very interesting. what caused them to get hacked repeatedly? clouds offer lots of approaches to security. what is "opera/micros"?

☝️ The moat is actually running the things

network effects are still the king of internet moats but providing a reliable way for others to lighten their cognitive burden is one of history's best ways to build and run businesses

Yeah but u can also just wrap terraform workflows in a point and click UX so "self hosting" is also not necessary anymore.

not sure i follow your point yet. mind rephrasing?

i ask because it's never as easy as just running terraform and then forgetting about it in case that was the point you're making