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Well yeah strictly you don't, but the idea of having a single machine under someone's desk as a build server managed by one person where you have multiple dev teams fills me with horror! If that one person is off and the build server is down you're potentially dead in the water for a long time. Fine for small businesses that only have a handful of devs but problematic where you've multiple teams.
Yup, exactly this. Why waste resources internally when you can free up your own resources to do more productive work. There's also going to be some kind of SLA on an enterprise plan where you can get compensation if there's a service outage that lasts a long time. Can't really do that if it's self managed.
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