On prem comes with perpetual licences so it doesn’t need to check in, it does but doesn’t need to. And it ulikley they will ‘kill’ it as a bunch of us are not shifting anytime soon.
Jonathan, does 2w leverage Kubernetes?
They are on azure so presumably they are. But either way the point of Kubernetes is its easy to spin up an instance so it wouldnt really matter if someone is a current user or not.
It was mentioned several times by people at Insights that there might be a hybrid container option, but no details yet.
I guess that’s where I was going in my post… are they going to match Epicor’s deployment architecture? Or are they still rocking azure windows VMs and SQL server as a service?
What implications do those decisions have on the offering moving forward past EOL for on prem installs?
Giving us a VM online is no different from just having cloud kinetic? I would hope they allow us to just pull a docker image and be off like most software these days which I suspect it will be BYODB (Bring Your Own Database).
you can pretty much containerise the current version. A few command and a dotnet .\Bin\Epicor.Ice.Hosting.ApiHost.dll and you can run Kinetic on Windows w/o the IIS overhead. Obvs, dont do this is you ever want support from Epicor or in production.
Pretty sure it is/will be Linux containers. No VMs. VMs were Single Tenant.
Hopefully, there is no difference between the container on prem and in cloud. Both would be subscriptions and both would have access to some kind of Cloud Portal.
Exactly Mark. I don’t believe 2W is using linux containers right now, but I could be wrong- again, very little info on how it’s working.
They can keep the cloud portal I’ll just have the container thanks 
Given the trajectory they are looking to ditch Windows and MS SQL so it would make no sense for it not to be. I could see some arguments that it keeps on prem Windows folks happy but, at the end of the day, docker and it’s ilk are incredibly easy to maintain. I could argue that compiling the Windows version is a single click in VS and you have a self hosted exe to run for the windows holdouts. Either way at this rate I’m struggling to see windows server be relevant in the next 10 years.