"As part of this transition, we will unfortunately be sunsetting the Airplane platform on March 1."
So these "thousands of engineers" will only have two months to redo all of their work?
Let's be honest, nobody had 'Airplane' as some critical part of their business.
really curious of the terms of that
But also, a lot of companies have engineers that can.. Engineer. Often it's more an availability issue than expertise.
We were lucky that they did a good job with the escrowed code and had everything we needed to build the software on day one.
>And for how many of those that do is it actually an optimal use of resources?
That's impossible to answer -- depends on how hard it would be to port to another product to fill the need (assuming you can find such a product), or write a new system from scratch to do what that product does.
Sucks for customers but is hopefully a soft landing for Airplane team ending up in an org that hard pivoted to B2B recently (and hence can afford to continue their employment).
Seriously though, if you're a business like https://simpleclosure.com/ you'd probably use this for prospecting. Recruiters too might pay for such a list to recruit from companies in peril ("motivated talent"). Lots of ways to potentially squeeze some fiat from this idea imho.
but also linkedin says that had up to 50 employees. highly doubt they were each making like 500k/yr cash on average
Cloud/servers/infra/where the bits live and move + people + misc biz expenses were assumed in my estimate.
Not to forget again that the cloud is just someone else's computer...
I used to use that cloud quip, until I researched what IaaS is and accepted there can be benefits. And note, that quip is usually used for IaaS, not SaaS.
That all said... This seems like a really shitty rugpull by the company.
As for stores, they all have the same way of purchasing stuff, and if they all shut down, society would collapse and you have bigger problems.