@quinn @gmassen I definitely understand why it happened, IT staff have been minimized, disrespected, and ignored for years, prevented from budgeting critical needs, etc. Turning it all into a subscription means someone else raises the prices, someone else staffs the problems, etc.

But centralizing it on a bunch of companies heavily motivated to raise their own profits instead of protecting yours is going to lead to a lot of ruin.

@quinn @ocdtrekkie In quite a few cases I’d suspect the outsourcing has become way more expensive than decent IT staff. The way back has become near impossible. And compliance is part of it. But I still hold infrastructure to a different standard than a school district, in terms of understanding and being in control of the core systems. It is also the only way I can see to prevent large-scale failures: limiting impact of concentration.