No - aaS is not going anywhere ... for precisely the reasons you already articulated: "I have 0 desire nor inclination to replace any of the software I currentl

No - aaS is not going anywhere ... for precisely the reasons you already articulated: "I have 0 desire nor inclination to replace any of the software I currently pay for either personally or through my startup" Businesses should outsource [almost] every non-core functionality to someone else Unless it becomes so business-critical that it absolutely positively MUST be done in-house, go to a reliable vendor and pay them for their expertise Programmers already* do this by using libraries when they write software (yeah, you learned how to build a graph data structure and implement a binary search tree in your second or third degree year, but you have never done it since - because the versions that exist in either language-supplied or community-based libraries are just plain better) The days of "do it all yourself" are - blessedly - decades behind us now Use the best* tools for the job, and worry about delivering your product/service to your customers ----- * "best" may vary over time - cost, language, availability, etc are all factors in determining this for you