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Selling to DoD specifically is even more fun. Well depending on who's buying you might get to play fast and loose for a while but eventually you'll get bogged down in certifications.

Also security clearance helps if you have to send people onsite to debug.

Also if you think <insert log aggregation as a service> is slow try doing that over the phone from a secure facility where you can't get logs sent to you, just have someone read them to you.

Oh and you get to use Python 2.4 and RHEL 5 a lot if you work on Linux.

Yeah startup people would run for the hills.

However once you break through and get your devices listed on approved list of devices, you can fun overpricing the crap out of your services: https://aplits.disa.mil/processAPList.action (kind of like going to medical school -- pay lots of money upfront, then extract later through overpriced products and services).