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How the hell did we go from realizing massive enterprise software was a bad deal to suddenly embracing it all over again? Not that stuff like Oracle and Salesfo
by 1_2__4 9y ago
How the hell did we go from realizing massive enterprise software was a bad deal to suddenly embracing it all over again? Not that stuff like Oracle and Salesforce ever went away, but I seriously don't understand why small companies buy into the Faustian bargain of "yes please vendor, I'd love to be in a position where I'm tied to your company forever, that sounds great".
- aembleton 9y agoBecause it's easy to get going with it, and the pricing scales per user.
- Karunamon 9y agoFor something as ephemeral as instant message, there's no real lock-in to speak of. The migration path is: 1) Grant your users access to the new tool 2) There is no 2. Pain only comes when you're storing organizational knowledge in an instant message tool.
- CaptSpify 9y agoThe older I get, the more I realize that things don't ever really change. We keep making the same mistakes over and over and over. You think that we, as a science and engineering focused field would be less prone to this but no, we're still short-sighted meat-bags like everyone else.
- madeofpalk 9y agoI mean, what's the alternative? Roll your own software?