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Discussion on: It's not just someone else's computer

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Anton Frattaroli

Whenever I use this phrase it's because my company has its own cloud and it isn't beneficial for us to run our software on another company's cloud.

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Ben Halpern

It might benefit in some case though, right? Could there be a service operated by some provider more tailored to a use-case or backed by some expertise you don't have in house?

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Anton Frattaroli

Yeah I forgot about video streaming. We don't want that throughput on our lines. So not just someone else's computer, but their ISP too.

As far as hosting vs. support... I can't think of an example where we haven't chosen on-prem (if available) and, if the software is exotic, then hired contracted development/support.