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There's more than this. This covers what might happen at a tech company, but what about all those other companies that don't employ developers? Well, Microsof
by jdmichal 5y ago
There's more than this. This covers what might happen at a tech company, but what about all those other companies that don't employ developers? Well, Microsoft also has Azure Active Directory and Office 365. Replacing expensive AD and Exchange servers -- and the employees to manage them -- with a simple monthly subscription makes a pretty convincing case to a lot of companies. Especially those that would like to minimize IT as much as possible, because it's not a core competency.
- formerly_proven 5y agoYes, and all of those not-primarily-software industries haven't yet caught on that unconditionally using SaaS is not a good idea, while at least some software companies are realizing this now. In SW land the pendulum starts to come back from SaaS-all-the-way, outside SW land it's still in full swing to SaaS-all-day-every-day.
- jedberg 5y agoI don't agree with you, but even if I did, Microsoft is probably best positioned to take advantage of such a trend, since they have the most seamless experience going from their cloud products to their hosted products.
- formerly_proven 5y agoWhich of the four-ish statements do you disagree with or do you think all of them are false?
- jedberg 5y agoI don't think the pendulum will swing all the way back in either direction. I think everyone will settle on some things being SaaS and some being self hosted.
- formerly_proven 5y agoDitto