[filmgirlcw]

I mean, people do most of those things (the wig analogy is a bit off but people do get weeves and extensions) — not everyone, but I don’t cook, as an example. I own a frying pan, but I don’t know the last time I’ve ever used it. As a general rule, I don’t cook.

And many, many people don’t own a car, not because they can’t afford one but because it makes more sense to rent one or hire a car service when needed. Frankly, my dream scenario is to have enough money to hire a personal driver who is on-demand and at the ready when I need to go out and do things. For plenty of people, that’s anathema. But for me, I don’t like driving (or cooking) and I’d much rather pay someone to do it for me.

The same is true for software. I like tinkering with a lot of my own software, but if I was building my own business, I sure as shit would rather pay for an established company to handle some of the grunt work, rather than hiring dedicated teams that in aggregate would cost a lot of money.

The rise of SaaS and PaaS isn’t just laziness. It’s a recognition that for a lot of people, even developers, we’d rather entrust a lot of the operations and IT work to someone else.

[yobbo]

> The rise of SaaS and PaaS isn’t just laziness.

My point is that none of the analogies are arguments for (or against) SaaS, or in this case "brand name" enterprise software.

Whenever any of these comically banal analogies are brought out to sell something, the intention always seems to be to suspend critical thinking.

There exists many legitimate arguments, for many things. They never begin with "why would anyone need a frying pan".