Indeed, no more SaaS. I've had enough of this cloud nonsense already.

Say more? Are you tired of it personally or is it troublesome at work?

I’m assuming the difference is: “big $$ license fees” for on-prem is $X a year, while “sweet saas revenue” is $A a year, $B per user, $C for compute, $D for storage, and $E for requests.

As a large company, what are the things you are more than happy to pay for with on-prem?

The reason I’m asking: this feels like the largest issue with cloud saas, which is one of the more popular implementations of open-core for B2B. Not saying Splunk is open-core, but it’s related to above/dbt cloud discussion.

Enterprise customers have the highest propensity to pay, but don’t need or want their cloud offering.

Mid-tier customers actually prefer a managed service by their cloud provider, aws/gcp/azure, because it strikes a balance between easy AND it works within their vpc/iam/devops. But this cuts off open-core companies main revenue, so they start making ELv2 licenses (elastic, airbyte, etc) which makes things harder on mid-tier.

Small customers are the ones who love saas the most, but have the least ability to pay, need simpler tools over complex ones, and will probably grow out of being a customer…

I’m curious if there are any companies which are: source code available, commercial license, allow you to fork/modify the source code, only offer on-prem (no cloud saas offering), want the mega-clouds to offer a managed service. BUT the commercial license requires any companies over 250 employees or $X revenue (docker desktop style) to pay a yearly license fee.