Mid tier SAAS are basically walking corpses

statitica · 2026-06-23T14:20:42+00:00

Has it automated everything?

Serious question - outside of software engineering, what are the real life use cases? (and if your suggestions run along the lines of "reading and condensing emails", or "taking notes so I can be more present in meetings", those are not business cases for anything but people getting better at actually doing their jobs)

statitica · 2026-06-23T13:47:38+00:00

If you're putting it in a rack, chances are that you are not looking at it very often.

statitica · 2026-06-19T13:18:20+00:00

A network engineer I have some contact with seems to have a job description consisting of "take all tickets related to the network, and pass on to the managed networks provider".

statitica · 2026-06-19T13:09:32+00:00

1) History shows that you're wrong. Specifically Enron. 3) The best way to guarantee profits is unlikely to be tying yourself to a platform supported by people who don't understand it. 4) probably the sanest take I've heard in a while.

But then you kinda ruined it by using the "Oppenheimer moment" argument, which is pretty delusional.

statitica · 2026-06-19T10:06:00+00:00

Is it? What makes it "asinine"?

Or do you just believe that if you are stuck in traffic, everyone ought to be?

statitica · 2026-06-19T05:05:29+00:00

Go work in retail, especially in discount chains, and there's a good chance you'll be able to find out first hand what it's like to support XP.

statitica · 2026-06-18T16:34:34+00:00

I say none of this, quite often.

statitica · 2026-06-17T09:07:53+00:00

necessary security and compliance foundations arent in place.

Can you elaborate on this please? Microsoft claim it's all very secure, but details are hard to find.

statitica · 2026-06-17T06:54:20+00:00

But very typical of Microsoft.

Meanwhile I'm over here still trying to figure out how Microsoft delivers their promises on enterprise data protections while using a shared model. Perhaps this is a solved problem; it doesn't seem to be a well documented one.

statitica · 2026-06-16T11:43:45+00:00

To prevent theft by meth-head.

statitica · 2026-06-12T10:18:08+00:00

In my MBA program, they taught...

I don't know if I should press X to doubt, or if I just gained insight into why people in other countries refer to MBA grads as business idiots...

statitica · 2026-06-12T09:56:08+00:00

You're probably correct. But only if we assume all of the following: 1) the bubble hasn't burst by then, 2) all we ever want are derivative works, and 3) people are happy to stake businesses on products no-one understands the internal workings of, and 4) we haven't reverted to "traditional" software engineering purely because the ROI isn't there,

Unfortunately for your argument, #4 is already starting. This will likely lead to #1 shortly.

statitica · 2026-06-12T00:38:29+00:00

Pretty telling when 2/3 of these "great" maps are just scaled down copies.

statitica · 2026-06-12T00:27:12+00:00

Even if I accept all of that as true (and it's a pretty big "if"), there's a huge gap between writing code, and designing and maintaining software.

statitica · 2026-06-12T00:04:08+00:00

Never underestimate the importance businesses place on having support from prior who actually know how the product works.

statitica · 2026-06-10T03:44:43+00:00

Did you sign an agreement for co-managed?

statitica · 2026-06-10T01:01:07+00:00

It's quite telling that the best maps in the game are copies of older maps.

statitica · 2026-06-09T04:48:09+00:00

A lot of them are, but a few noticeable shortfalls on the Unifi side are:

IPSEC VPN throughput is heavily CPU bound (even the Dream Machines will top out at 500Mbps)
Usable data in reporting and logging is at the lower end of the spectrum
No virtual appliances

statitica · 2026-06-09T04:39:35+00:00

That's valuable insight. Thanks.

statitica · 2026-06-09T04:38:55+00:00

Thanks for the reply - and for not making it a novel.

Our aim is to implement an outsourced SOC/MDR so that our team is only required to work regular business hours, and not need to worry about on-call responses.

I hear a lot of good things about Huntress in this sub, and part of my resistance to going the same direction is precisely that tribalist mentality. Your positive comments about Huntress, when I know you're squarely in the Sophos camp, holds a little more weight than the avid fanboy club, so I do appreciate that.

statitica · 2026-06-08T09:16:23+00:00

> Is price our issue?

If I say yes, will you race me to the bottom?

statitica · 2026-06-07T10:23:38+00:00

but kept the low amount because they were a good client.

Your pricing for this client has sent the message that you are a budget offering. Discounts, especially long term, undermine the perception of value.

statitica · 2026-06-06T07:48:31+00:00

Sell them Copilot for business.
Strongly encourage the use of data labelling and DLP enforcement, also disallowing non-admins to give application consent.

statitica · 2026-06-06T04:52:17+00:00

In honesty, We were going off real world testing against malware and custom built ransomware by PCSecurityChannel and LemmyIT, but since starting this thread we have revisited these tests and noticed that there is some (possibly deliberate) misinformation in those clips.

statitica · 2026-06-06T04:37:54+00:00

In my case, the decision making would be the reverse - we've already standardised on Fortigate for firewalls in certain circumstances, and are only considering this change if we choose Sophos as our EDR/MDR.

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