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Poll: .NET software as service.....Yes or No

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Mrburns2007

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I've seen a lot of info lately about M$ wanting to change there business model from selling software outright to selling it as a service. I was wondering how many will buy onto this change.
 

Subscription based software only makes economic sense to the software developers... once again consumers are on the short end of the stick.
 
Maybe somebody will create a OS that is compatible with most of the windows apps out there and we won't have to a subscription based model forced on us.
 
Maybe somebody will create a OS that is compatible with most of the windows apps out there and we won't have to a subscription based model forced on us.

MS can't even keep Windows compatible with win32 apps, you think a 3rd party can?

If you don't like the way MS is moving get off their bandwagon, obviously the time you spend on learning something new will pay off in the long run.
 
Slashdot listed yesterday that the NY Times reported that M$ was scrapping it's .Net "My Services" rented software because it wasn't selling.

Other than that, .Net itself isn't subscription-ware in any particular sense. However, Microsoft still has adopted a stronger subscription-like licensing model within the past year. Their licensing rates now optimize for companies willing to upgrade every 2 years (previously it was less costly/restrictive).

So even though Office isn't strictly subscription-ware, it is beginning to look that way for many organizations. We'll have to see how it actually plays out, and if StarOffice 6.0 can gain any market share.

Note there's a lot of high-end commercial software out there that is de facto subscription-ware as well. For example, although you already pay a hefty license fee to deploy Oracle, you also pay for an additional expensive annual support contract.
 
In the past you could easily sell software updates because the new versions were almost always worth the upgrade fee. Today innovation in many applications is whimpering out. Office applications are about as good as they'll get (MS Office). So are operating systems (Windows). These might even become commodities in the future like text editors.

When people realize upgrades aren't worth the price of admission, software companies must either take risks and innovate again, offering new versions that are compelling. Or go with subscriptions.

Subscribing to software has a lot of benefits to the seller but few to the buyer. I know MS said for some companies subscriptions could actually be cheaper. Hmmm. If so probably not by much.
 
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