at least with standalone software it's going to work forever as long as the OS supports it. cant say the same for live service software that you can't run at home

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How much software is standalone these days, though? It seems like most companies are shifting to SaaS.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as long as you can host the "SaaS" elements yourself (nextcloud, for example) there's a lot more software than you'd initially think. There will always be a market for self-hosted options for cloud software imo: loads of businesses are reluctant to move their internal infrastructure to the cloud

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Nextcloud isn't SaaS, unless you're paying someone else to manage your server. Self-hosting is never SaaS.