[leros]

I know some people that work in industrial control (eg nuclear power plant control systems). Obviously their customers don't want to use a SaaS service hosted online. They've always had onsite servers with desktop applications. Even they're moving to web applications. Still hosted on site, but webapps served locally. The issue they had was hiring people who could (or wanted to) build desktop applications. Switching to modern web standards for their apps really eased their hiring.

[jollyllama]

Yes, I have worked at a place like this. SCADA and other controls is like an untouched island compared to any other industry I have worked in. It can be a struggle to get people on board with web applications there.

[physicsguy]

There’s such a diversity of systems it’s easier to pull data out of the SCADA system and build genetic analytics normally. That’s the approach that’s happened in many industries anyway from what I’m seeing.