In Deployment: Directory Based Edge Blocking for Exchange Online Protection

I'm afraid there are two camps here. Those who want to move to the cloud and those who prefer local. I happen to fall into the latter group. When you come here and extol DBEB, you are kink of kicking sand into the faces of administrators like myself. It seems that the Exchange on premises folks are continually getting features removed and we are expected to switch some of the options to the cloud. In most cases I'm seeing solutions presented that are not as elegant and are more limiting than previous versions of Exchange. What was previously working great (i.e. An Edge server handling LDAP verifications and Threat Management Gateway handling everything else) has now been removed and a mediocre cloud-based solution has been plopped down in it's place. I understand that Microsoft wants every one to pay them monthly fees, but by killing your on premises options, you're just continually kicking sand in our faces. We DO NOT WANT what you are offering. We want what we already had working in place that was way more customizable and functional than what you are coming here today and offering us. We simply do not want the cloud and I find it very insulting the situation we now find ourselves in with what you have, in essence, forced us to do. Yes, we could stay on 2010, but eventually we will have to upgrade because you'll cut off support. At that point, I'm afraid, I'm going to have to find another solution other than what Microsoft is offering. I don't think Office 365 is a good deal, especially for companies over 200 users. In fact, I think it easily doubles the costs. Please take this feedback to your team that we really want you to bring back Edge as well as ISA/TMG and all the other on premises solutions that you had before. I don't expect them to be amazing, I just want them to actually be available. We are not moving to the cloud no matter what, so please provide us on premises solutions that do what you are talking about above. Don't force us into the cloud because, we will choose Google over what you are offering. Your price plans are just way too high for larger companies.