Businesses of all sizes embrace open source software and the benefits it can bring. Sometimes, though, choosing proprietary software makes better business sense. Here are seven scenarios when it pays to pay for your software.
And even if they did, the notion that you need proprietary software for that is a lie. There’s nothing wrong with paying a provider to host and admin some AGPL software for you.
Smaller businesses without in-house IT sometimes do, though. Sure they can get an MSP. But if their purpose is to facilitate a software vendor to connect to a server with business specific software they don’t understand, they might as well just get it as a service.
Especially when it’s software that just needs yearly updates due to changing regulations.
I definitely agree that more often than not, the above doesn’t apply, but there specific situations where SaaS actually does make sense and will have a lower cost in money and time.
“When you want software as a service”
Lol. Nobody wants software as a service.
And even if they did, the notion that you need proprietary software for that is a lie. There’s nothing wrong with paying a provider to host and admin some AGPL software for you.
Say that to my employer who just replaced our in-house developed system with a service and made my job disappear.
Smaller businesses without in-house IT sometimes do, though. Sure they can get an MSP. But if their purpose is to facilitate a software vendor to connect to a server with business specific software they don’t understand, they might as well just get it as a service.
Especially when it’s software that just needs yearly updates due to changing regulations.
I definitely agree that more often than not, the above doesn’t apply, but there specific situations where SaaS actually does make sense and will have a lower cost in money and time.