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What 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
by threeseed 3y ago
What 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.