This also assumes that the open source model of self-hosting is sustainable. We used to have extraordinarily expensive enterprise options for software, then the

This also assumes that the open source model of self-hosting is sustainable. We used to have extraordinarily expensive enterprise options for software, then there was an open source boom which eliminated marginal cost with the hope of building the software collaboratively. In practice, many of these open-source projects such as MongoDB simply spent VC money to make the software they were giving away.