Posted by RobinHirst11 1 day ago
This forum poster would be… shocked to see how many SaaS companies are critical dependencies at most tech companies.
Imo, we need to get better at self hosting these kinds of tools. When I did a brief stint in BI tooling, we were basically using local tools with data exported from (gasp) SAP, and there was a dinky windows server behind someone’s desk where it’d run automated reports based on what we’d build and send out emails.
Certainly orders of magnitude cheaper. Maybe there was occasional downtime, but it didn’t really matter. You could always get the Oncall to generate the report you needed anyways
Realistically, if I had to buy: my employer, probably, given a reasonable discount. Unless you know a business that doesn't eagerly share personally identifiable information [which ends up leaked]... I'll aim for reduction, not resolution. I'm sure you've heard the quip about making Perfect the enemy of Better.
Regardless, and more fairly: with prices squeezed, and the pile of hardware I already own and ignore [including several old-school towers, both Framework desktop/laptop, and Steam Deck/Machine], I'm not foreseeing much shopping. Big loss on their part, I know; wish that was the intention.