Many Enterprise companies have cloud options, and they still aren't viable because leadership is risk adverse to having their data outside of their ownership. This is especially true regarding laws in various jurisdictions.

I work in Enterprise Software and speak to 100s of C level leadership. People aren't "fed up" with on-premise enterprise. They aren't refusing to switch due to it being difficult.

I mean, this is an interesting conversation we could take in a lot of directions, but I wanted to clarify that I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding here about enterprise software.

Same is true of SaaS, it's not a keyword for these smaller cloud-based software. It's a literal description of your ownership of the service.

You are right that there is less margin in cloud vs. on-premise, but that's true of BigEnterprise's software and offerings as well.

What you're saying fundamentally makes sense as a theory, but in practice I think the reasons and thoughts just have different outcomes.

And this isn't just software, this is also for hosting the hardware as a whole.