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The company I work for experienced this. The SaaS solution we depended on suddenly got very pricey. New pricing model and all. The sales reps were completely in
by tgv 2y ago
The company I work for experienced this. The SaaS solution we depended on suddenly got very pricey. New pricing
model and all. The sales reps were completely inflexible. It got so uncomfortable that I got to develop a replacement. When we were (gradually) moving over, they lost interest and let us off with a mild increase, and from this year on, we won’t be needing them at all.
- cryptonector 2y agoBuy, or build? Build -> opportunity cost, ongoing cost, legacy Buy -> upfront cost, integrate, ongoing cost, and maybe eventually extortion leading you to Build a replacement. This leads to many different implementations of roughly the same concepts all over, which sucks. Or open source, if it already exists. Or both. Not that open source doesn't have integration costs. But think of this from an executive's perspective. Building really sucks. But buying sucks more in the future. You might just buy. I've seen all of these. My preference is to grudgingly build if suitable open source doesn't already exist.