> fighting change vs just not trusting someone who didn't come from where they came from Maybe they just did a sensible assessment of the options. - Is there

> fighting change vs just not trusting someone who didn't come from where they came from Maybe they just did a sensible assessment of the options. - Is there a risk in being dependent on an SaaS business that may rise prices or go out of business? Yes, definitely - Are sheet metal shops in a position for upfront investments in an asset that will be useful in the long term? Yes, definitely, and more so than an enterprise customer who'll just expend a 200$/mo charge on the company credit card - Are sheet metal shops used to taking care of business-critical assets? Yes, definitely Much of today's SaaS software is based on the premise that people can buy it without permission from the higher-ups because - the monthly charge is low enough to escape scrutiny - the function of the software is not business-critical enough that lock-in is a problem or it looks cool enough to the CEO and the alternative is something clearly inferior (nothing, or Excel Macros) Once you move out of the enterprise/startup space into structures which function differently (and it's not that they are "fighting change", it's just that they're built on different foundations), you need to check these assumptions.