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by albert_e
1040 days ago
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Or: You have a lot of business travel wherein your employees currently stay in hotels whenever they visit major cities? Don't use hotels, they are expensive! Build and operate your own company owned full-service apartments in those cities. |
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For most companies their software is their business. Take away the software and the company stops functioning.
Their employees aren’t just visiting their software every few weeks or so. They’re using it every day from morning to evening.
There is no travel involved. Your software is your home.
So really a better analogy would be renting vs buying your home. The rental comes with the furniture and for several things that might go wrong the landlord will come and fix it, whereas when you own the house, you have to buy the furniture and arrange it, and if anything goes wrong you are responsible for fixing it.
Of course, the analogy breaks down in many ways because when you’re on Prem you are buying established software with a support license so if something does fail the support license should provide as much, if not more service than you would get on AWS.
The entire analogy is completely pointless because it adds a layer of indirection for no reason other than for some reason tech people absolutely love making analogies to physical objects.