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To reiterate a crucial point in this comment, replacing the Office apps is the least of the issues. Enterpise customers rely on 365 for identity management, end

To reiterate a crucial point in this comment, replacing the Office apps is the least of the issues. Enterpise customers rely on 365 for identity management, endpoint protection, business intelligence and a whole bunch of other stuff that the average user pays no attention to. We aren't talking about replacing an office suite, but an entire model of IT infrastructure management.

tonyhart7 9mo ago
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- jack_tripper 9mo ago
  I think it's just that HN audiences is generally detached from the harsh reality of the "money people" who make these purchasing choices and are generally choosing the safe low friction option, that lets the business free to focus on product development and sales that are the core of business, rather than wasting resources on building and managing IT infra from FOSS scratch for the sake of avoiding $BIG_TECH. If your business is making and selling a new type of energy drink or gluten free bread, you're not gonna bat an eye on going all-in on Microsoft Office 365 and Azure for your IT infra so you can focus on the product. Same story on how even software-first companies like Google just default to using SAP for ERP and be done with it instead of trying to write their own solution for no benefit even if they technically could, why bother when they can just focus on doing what they know best, getting you to click on ads, and outsource the annoying boring part of the megacorp business to SAP.
  - tonyhart7 9mo ago
    I also didn't understand where sentiment of the same industry that promote SaaS for their niche tool comes from like this is YC sponsored site, there is a tons of SaaS for niche toolkit that people sold,shares etc and now all of sudden they hate it when other people doing the same thing they do
    - opan 9mo ago
      I'm not buying or selling a SaaS. I don't like them. HN has more than one user and they don't all agree.
      - tonyhart7 9mo ago
        Yeah but its your opinion, we talking about facts not believe it???? just click past button and its shows top 50 of HN upvoted thread for yesterday and its shows multiple of SaaS product or SaaS clothed OpenSource in some form or another
RedShift1 9mo ago
We're back in the mainframe times boys, good luck everyone.

tonyhart7 9mo ago

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jack_tripper 9mo ago
I think it's just that HN audiences is generally detached from the harsh reality of the "money people" who make these purchasing choices and are generally choosing the safe low friction option, that lets the business free to focus on product development and sales that are the core of business, rather than wasting resources on building and managing IT infra from FOSS scratch for the sake of avoiding $BIG_TECH. If your business is making and selling a new type of energy drink or gluten free bread, you're not gonna bat an eye on going all-in on Microsoft Office 365 and Azure for your IT infra so you can focus on the product. Same story on how even software-first companies like Google just default to using SAP for ERP and be done with it instead of trying to write their own solution for no benefit even if they technically could, why bother when they can just focus on doing what they know best, getting you to click on ads, and outsource the annoying boring part of the megacorp business to SAP.
- tonyhart7 9mo ago
  I also didn't understand where sentiment of the same industry that promote SaaS for their niche tool comes from like this is YC sponsored site, there is a tons of SaaS for niche toolkit that people sold,shares etc and now all of sudden they hate it when other people doing the same thing they do
  - opan 9mo ago
    I'm not buying or selling a SaaS. I don't like them. HN has more than one user and they don't all agree.
    - tonyhart7 9mo ago
      Yeah but its your opinion, we talking about facts not believe it???? just click past button and its shows top 50 of HN upvoted thread for yesterday and its shows multiple of SaaS product or SaaS clothed OpenSource in some form or another

RedShift1 9mo ago

We're back in the mainframe times boys, good luck everyone.