SaaS Pricing – IWENAI

Your Observability Budget Is a Ransom. ClickHouse Is the Hostage Negotiator.

📅 July 12, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Engineering leaders are bleeding budgets on observability platforms that charge per gigabyte of ingested data, forcing them to sample and blind themselves to production issues. But ClickHouse’s columnar architecture commoditizes the storage and query layer, making those pricing models obsolete. The observability war is no longer about features — it’s about who owns the database engine, and open-source has already won.

ClickHouse Cost Optimization Data Engineering Observability Open Source SaaS Pricing Vendor Strategy

Microsoft Spent Billions on AI. Only 1% of Users Care.

📅 July 9, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Microsoft 365 Copilot has a 4.5% adoption rate after three years and a 1% weekly active user rate — yet prices keep climbing. The one feature users actually love, Co-Work, is locked behind a separate token-based paywall. This isn’t a product failure. It’s a pricing strategy that reveals exactly which AI Microsoft thinks is worth keeping from you.

AI AI Productivity Enterprise Software Microsoft SaaS Pricing