I’d like to join those asking “who is Sahil?”. And to answer some points:
A term incorporating soloware and groupware (in this new meaning of “groupware”) is probnably nicheware
SaaS on open source is a thing for ages now. SaaS is mostly not about “can’t have the code” but rather “can’t be bothered to run and support it”. There is a lot of expense, in money and time, needed to run existingm legitimately available code reliably and to resolve issues speedily. So I would not expect any explosion of nichware to bite into “*aaS” as a concept; rather, SaaS platforms might adapt to serve nicheware, and/or there might be some shifting from SaaS to PaaS/IaaS (to take an AI example, a per-token billed standard inference endpoint is SaaS; a serverless endpoint to serve your custom model, billed by the second of activity, is PaaS if not IaaS).
I’d like to join those asking “who is Sahil?”. And to answer some points:
A term incorporating soloware and groupware (in this new meaning of “groupware”) is probnably nicheware
SaaS on open source is a thing for ages now. SaaS is mostly not about “can’t have the code” but rather “can’t be bothered to run and support it”. There is a lot of expense, in money and time, needed to run existingm legitimately available code reliably and to resolve issues speedily. So I would not expect any explosion of nichware to bite into “*aaS” as a concept; rather, SaaS platforms might adapt to serve nicheware, and/or there might be some shifting from SaaS to PaaS/IaaS (to take an AI example, a per-token billed standard inference endpoint is SaaS; a serverless endpoint to serve your custom model, billed by the second of activity, is PaaS if not IaaS).
I really like the term nicheware and might adopt it!