My employer is a mid-sized university. Cost is the main issue. Our environment is a mixture of in-house developed apps and COTS. Until recently, our major COTS

My employer is a mid-sized university. Cost is the main issue. Our environment is a mixture of in-house developed apps and COTS. Until recently, our major COTS vendors didn't have cloud solutions. Now they have cloud solutions but they're far too costly for us to afford. So we need to keep them in-house and continue to employ the staff to support it. Our in-house apps integrate the COTS systems. Our newer apps are mostly in the cloud. But the older ones are in technologies that need to stay where the database server is, which is in our server room for the reason stated in the last paragraph. Rewriting the apps isn't on our radar due to new work coming in. Historically, outsource vs. in-source seems to ebb and flow. The clear path is usually muddied when new technologies come out to reduce cost on one side or the other.