> That really depends on how you budget It depends on how big your budget is. If it's tight, the problem of purchasing expensive licenses at once may be a bloc

> That really depends on how you budget It depends on how big your budget is. If it's tight, the problem of purchasing expensive licenses at once may be a blocker - bad for the buyer AND the seller! > This is 100% false, SaaS Opex Spend is FAR FAR FAR less flexible than CAPEX spend in the IT Space, take for example Office 365 Vs ONPrem, with OnPrem I can forgo a Capital expense to upgrade some servers, EOL a SAN disk array a year later, or choose to stick on Office 2016 for another year if needed. I don't see how this proves that SaaS is not flexible? You also forgot to account for the necessary expenses to run all this On-Prem stuff. You need an expensive team that you pay on a monthly basis --> OPEX > Now you do not pay your annual licensing fee well your software no longer works I agree with you that this sucks. > Still from a highly logical and engineering focus more than a Finance focus I will still look at $100k over 5 years or 20K annual to be the same... You can look at it this way but that still doesn't make it (not even "highly logical") the same. Sorry.