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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 6922178" data-attributes="member: 6804070">Cloud vs on premise? Yea, probably. And I find it humorous. When I was young, I thought all the old guys were stodgy and refused to use the latest technology for numerous reasons, often because they didn't wanted to learn something new.Now that I'm old, I still go for new things (note the "cloud" is just another name for remote computing), but I temper it with experience and knowledge. I'd like to think wisdom. I also have a longer scale view of things.</blockquote>Whoever said the cloud was going away? It has it's very good uses. But it will never be the end-all. And it will never replace all on-premise (or whatever you chose to call it) needs.You base this opinion of FG being a relic on what? Yes it has an out of date engine, but that has nothing to do with cloud vs on-premise. The model of software purchase with a permanent usage license will always be desirable for some markets. Renting your software, computing power and storage will always have it's place too. One will never completely replace the other.I'm going to have to call bull<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> on this (simple an unsupported opinion). There are dozens of hundred-million dollar software companies that have no intention to move away from on-premise applications (even as many of them move into aslo providing SaaS options). There are reasons/cases that that putting data and IP on devices you don't control is not a preferred solution. That will never change. (And I don't intend to argue the reasons why here.)I didn't argue or comment on the Roll20/Soundcloud situation. Only pointed out that one of the top 3 reasons I refuse to use R20 is because of their vulnerability to such situations. If they are vulnerable to other companies, the R20 users are much more vulnerable because they also have to worry about R20 making any decisions they don't like or want.[/QUOTE]

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