You’re externalising the management if the datacenter, and the software management to keep the software runtime working up to date, plus the execs at the top sucking money from the operation, why would you think it would be cheaper than doing it yourself? Because the cloud companies sold the service at a loss to gain market share?

It’s as if people making monetary decisions don’t understand how to manage money.

I understand for small companies that can’t affoed and IT department, but there’s a point in size where cloud simply makes no sense, it’s orders of magnitude more expensive