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It's not just services like databases or other APIs applications hook into, it's the applications themselves, like accounting software or Microsoft Exchange and

• KronisLV 3y ago
  > It's not just services like databases or other APIs applications hook into, it's the applications themselves, like accounting software or Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, etc... That's a fair point! I mean, there are some options out there like Odoo, or stuff like Nextcloud/Collabora, OpenProject and you can run your own mail server etc., but those will increasingly feel like bad ideas for someone who needs something that "just works" and also has deadlines to manage. It's a bit like "Nobody got fired for choosing IBM", except nowadays with Microsoft/Google/Amazon cloud offerings, the Jira's of the world and so on.
  • candiodari 3y ago
    Actually, it often seems like "the cloud" is more along the lines of DRM. It enables software providers to guarantee payment, it often guarantees for vendors the ability to totally cut service whenever they want to. To absolutely guarantee nobody can touch their software except through them, so customer's can't automate anything without going through (and paying) the authors. Secure computing, but in the way that's always been done: secure from the customer. Not secure for the customer.