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Following up to a discussion on here yesterday, about why you would or wouldn't use subscription software, this interesting article showed up in my feed: Oracle & SAP are waging a secret war against third-party support | ITProPortal[^]
I haven't fact checked the article, so I don't know how much of it is true, but I don't read anything that sounds odd to me.
The idea is that you pay huge sums to use ("regular") Oracle and SAP software and about 90% of it is profit for them.
The other 10% is for bug fixing and updates.
Now there are other companies who gladly take up on that bug fixing and updating for only half the price, which is a problem for Oracle and SAP.
One of the tactics of fighting these third-party support providers is by moving customers to their SaaS offering.
These SaaS offerings aren't necessarily cheaper or more expensive, but because it's SaaS, the software is hosted on servers owned by Oracle and SAP.
Meaning Oracle and SAP are in charge and third-party support providers can't access it anymore.

So there's a reason not to use subscription software, or SaaS, I guess, since the "regular" software required support contracts as well.
And more specifically, a good reason not to use Oracle or SAP, but I don't think we needed more of those Laugh | :laugh:

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