I understand the it’s not triviel to develop, but there is still a huge underserved marked for on-premise APMs, and those you can buy aren’t nearly as good as New Relic.
Alas developing non-saas software is not exactly en vogue
I'm sure your mileage will vary but in my not so humble opinion companies that are still trying to cling to their aging fleet of servers are making pretty poor business decisions. I think this internet stuff is catching on.
- I work at NR, these questionable opinions are mine and not those of my employer though I might have stolen them from my friend Vicky who yells about software a lot. Don't buy stock because I typed some words on a webpage that's ridiculous, also maybe don't buy stock period. Buy bitcoin it's the new pet rocks.
Disclosure: I work for Elastic
Won't running servers in house be a cumbersome task