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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by bombcar on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:23AM (#45288266)
If you look at Salesforce as "Access as a SaaS" it's not so bad.

But if you're coming at it from a LAMP stack or otherwise having direct access to a real SQL database designed by intelligent people, it's pretty meh.

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by bayindirh on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:56AM (#45288527)
It's pretty depressing to see how much performance and capacity we waste.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by bombcar on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:42AM (#45288921)
Hush you. I need 48 cores at 5 GHz and 200 gigs of RAM to serve a simple status page.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by bayindirh on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:47AM (#45288976)
I'm an HPC admin, I can (and will) make you serve this page from NIC's unused core. I need these cores for streaming cat videos.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by bombcar on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:07AM (#45289181)
Yes, we did by 10,000 cores a year ago, no there is no capacity, yes we will run the ERP off an old win2k server, no we are not using 10k cores for seti@home.

Runs Prime95 like a baws

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by notpushkin on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:23AM (#45289391)
I’d love a self-hostable, in-browser Access. Preferably Access 97.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by bombcar on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:34AM (#45289509)
There’s a couple of open source projects that get almost close but not quite. It’s like a number of them have 20 to 50% of what you need.

I agree that it would be a very useful product.

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by theMMaI on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:23PM (#45292391)
Something like appsmith gets pretty close