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I'd love to know the source too. But this matches what I am seeing right now as well as predicting for the future. SaaS is a powerful distribution model but I
by nzoschke 10y ago
I'd love to know the source too.
But this matches what I am seeing right now as well as predicting for the future.
SaaS is a powerful distribution model but IaaS has gotten so good that it's in many ways easier to run many small things than one big thing. And when you run many small things huge benefits arise:
* security and isolation. Single tenant by default.
* control. Upgrade when it's convenient for your company, not your provider.
* Cost efficiency. Freemium SaaS requires burning VC cash. Open source + self serve demo doesn't
* customization. Set your own feature flags or add your own patches to fit the software to your business
Everything is cyclical. I think "install this software on your [cloud] computer" is going to be a big trend again.
- willow9886 10y agoWell said. We're also seeing greater demand now for our on premise FOSS software than ever before in the last 7 years.
- tomschlick 10y agoYup, this is why at work we have our multi-tenant SaaS using a different database for each tenant. That way if they want to split to self/dedicated-cloud hosting later down the road we can move them without any hassle. Edit: I describe our thought process here if it's useful to anyone else: https://tomschlick.com/2015/11/29/lessons-from-building-multi-tenant-apps-part-1-databases https://tomschlick.com/2015/11/29/lessons-from-building-mult...
- agibsonccc 10y agoOn prem is the only option for us. Developers don't want to pay (and I don't blame them as a dev) but the people who DO want to pay want everything behind the firewall still. Hybrid cloud is sort of being looked at but the rest of the world is still happy being on prem. Certain workloads have to be behind the firewall. That being said, docker and the like is making this easier.