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With DHH and others promoting a post-SaaS approach (once.com, etc.) we might see hardware refresh as cost-cutting. Astronomical compute bills and lack of granul
by adfm 3y ago
With DHH and others promoting a post-SaaS approach (once.com, etc.) we might see hardware refresh as cost-cutting. Astronomical compute bills and lack of granularity bring all things cloudy into sharp focus.
- threeseed 3y agoWhat they are doing is SaaS by stealth. You buy their product once, but it only has bug and security fixes for 3 years. Which means every business is going to need to upgrade on a cycle anyway.
- mlindner 3y agoPeople don't usually throw out their server hardware after 3 years. After 3 years is up they'll probably sell service plans. And with the code being all open source some owners may go the self-supported route, though probably most will buy service plans.
- threeseed 3y agoWas actually referring to DHH and the 37signals products. Whilst I think we will see a trend back towards more on-premise hardware I don't think SaaS is going away anytime soon. And in fact it's arguably better for everyone because the software is being continually maintained.