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by wheatbin 3672 days ago
If anything, self-hosted cloud software will continue to grow in popularity. It's cloud-based Saas companies that are more hype than substance (read Disrupted for an unsavory inside look).

Self-hosted cloud software will continue to grow in popularity though. Shameless plug alert: I recently released Wheatbin which is Open Source and 100% free: http://wheatbin.com. Github repo is here: https://github.com/wheatbin/wheatbin
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fasteo 3672 days ago
Duane history [1] is worth reading

[1] https://github.com/wheatbin/wheatbin/blob/master/doc/seed-of...

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wastedhours 3672 days ago
Yeah, I was just thinking this - reading around it a little bit, it seems that it's the cloud aspect that's where the hesitancy is for a lot of players (correct me if I'm wrong). If BigCorp is always going to have some on-site IT/server resource, then surely the best middle ground is renting out the software, letting BigCorp store the data on their own servers, and then charging for training, backup and integrations?
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jonasvp 3672 days ago
Good point - this is exactly the market Sandstorm (https://sandstorm.io) is trying to reach as well. Will be interesting to see how cloud-within-the-enterprise will turn out.
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wslh 3672 days ago
Weird that you show a BlackBerry on the product page. It makes perceiving the software as very old.
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