> Or in other words, it's more expensive to run our applications on a SAAS platform than on our own servers, ... But isn't this just because the initial up fro

> Or in other words, it's more expensive to run our applications on a SAAS platform than on our own servers, ... But isn't this just because the initial up front investment for your existing on prem infrastructure has already been spent, and that they are unlikely to all reach eol at the same time? Over time, won't the cost savings of the cloud model make up for the on prem write-off plus the costs of re architecture-ing for cloud? What sort of workloads do you never see moving to IaaS, where the costs of rearchitecturing are just too high? Any opinion on the new VMW on AWS offering, it's pricing, etc?