simon.harvey 41170 (5/25/2015)
There could be a whole lot of hidden costs as in rewriting stuff that no longer works.
Too true - I got the impression that even the SAAS costs alone would be enough to make your eyes water. As you say, then there would be potentially very large app modifications required as well.
If you're the sort of company that has a 5TB database though, perhaps all options are on the table.
S
Quick thought, 5Tb can easily be month's or a week's worth of data, regardless of the company's size, it however makes our jobs "slightly" more challenging.
The SAAS side of the coin (Salesforce??) often looks expensive but thinking of a simple thing like a Big Mac, £2.29 / $3.57 (note: there must be more people realizing the shooting irony of those numbers), you want to make your own then it's easy to do and doesn't cost but a fraction of the price but when maintaining the availability the cost piles up.
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