Software-licensing costs predicted to fall
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| Gartner also predicts that a fourth of all new business software will be
| delivered by software as a service by 2011.
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http://www.news.com/Software-licensing-costs-predicted-to-fall/2100-1011_3-6219263.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop
prices
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| Of course, it's going to take a long time to topple decades of wasteful,
| inefficient software practices, but we'll get there. Maybe it will take
| decades. But eventually customers will win
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9820038-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Related:
Adobe sees full shift to Web in next decade
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| Adobe Systems is working to deliver all of its software via the Web as a
| service rather than a packaged product, but the transition to earn money from
| subscriptions or advertising could take a decade...
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21359751/
Related:
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| From: billg
| Sent: Thursday, April 06, 1995 2:55 PM
| To: craigmu; nathanm; paulma; peteh; russs
| Cc: brianf
| Subject: Internet as a business tool
|
| I know I am a broken record on this but I think our plans continue to
| underestimate the importance of an OPEN unified approach for the internet.
|
| The demo I saw today when Windows 95 was showing its Internet capability
| was someone calling up the Fedex page on the internet and typing in a
| package number and getting the status.
|
| Imagine how much work it would have been for Fedex to call us up and get
| that running on MSN and negociate with us. Instead they just set it up.
| A very simple way to reach out to their customers.
|
| The continued enhancement of the browser standards is amazing to me. Now
| its security and 3d and tables - what will it within the next several
| years? Intelligent controls, directory - everything we are trying to
| define as standards.
|
| ..
|
| The analogy here is that the major sin that Microsoft made with Netware
| was to let Novell offer a better (actually smaller & faster, with
| simpler protocol) client for networking. This got to critical mass and
| can now evolve both client and server together. Hence we had and still
| have a really hard time displacing Novell at the server.
|
| In fact I am still of the opinion that we will not really deliver a
| really telling blow against Netware until we make some significant
| user-visible, client-side feature that Novell would have trouble
| matching in their servers. One of the reasons why I remain such a
| fanatic OFS believer.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2273.pdf
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