But, while sales pitches may anthropomorphize "The Cloud" into a sentient and unstoppable being, the reality of "everything as a service" offerings is not quite as tidy as that—yet. And, while a few brave companies with greenfield IT projects may be grabbing onto "almost everything as a service," not everyone is ready to follow them. As many of you told us, all of these new options increase the scope and complexity of a cloud migration. While moving email from local hosting to the cloud may have been obvious (yes, it really is past time to migrate off of Lotus Notes), the vote isn't nearly as automatic with each new level of "as a service" abstraction.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/everything-as-a-service-is-coming-but-were-no
Personally, I was relieved this was mostly about Enterprise infrastructure. Still, things like Stadia https://www.stadia.com/ and Office 365 https://www.office.com/ don't give me a vote of confidence for the future. I don't know about you, but I try to reduce my monthly bills, not increase how many I have.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hartree on Wednesday September 04 2019, @10:26PM (4 children)
Stallman has been calling this "Service As a Substitute for Software" or SASS for some time.
I think it refers to "service" in more than one of its meanings.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Wednesday September 04 2019, @10:40PM (2 children)
"service" := "something you can bill for"
Try to keep your customers dependent on you.
For everything.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @10:48PM
Once implemented, you can enforce compliance to your business model by threat of discontinuing that service once your customers depend on it.
We already have gotten Congress to pass Copyright and Patent law so the customers can't simply cut us out of the loop once we are in.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @11:35PM
What a nice profitable business you have running there!
"Such a shame if something bad were to happen to it. So frustrating that would be..."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @02:00AM
Yep, they like to service their customers good and hard.