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Blog: SaaS and Open Source are Good for Customers ... Unfortunately
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| There's an (unintentionally) funny article in BusinessWeek online, bewailing
| the tough business circumstances that SaaS (and open source) face. From the
| opening paragraph:
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| "The Internet revolutionized the distribution of software-perhaps a bit too
| much. The Web brought a new, cheaper method for getting software into the
| hands of users, but in doing so may have killed one of the best models in
| Silicon Valley history."
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| The piece goes on to say that OnDemand companies have problems because their
| margins are lower and they have to work so hard to get customers.
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| [...]
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| Summed up, her point is that software companies *loved* the old perpetual
| license business offering, because they got all their money up front, could
| charge separate yearly maintenance fees, and got an extra-special present in
| the form of an upgrade fee every few years as well
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http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;1265992326
"Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer [...] I can't imagine
something that could be worse than this for the software business and the
intellectual-property business. I'm an American; I believe in the American
way, I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've
done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
Is "exploiting the customers" really the 'American way'? Or just Microsoft's
(and BillyPress) interpretation?
Related:
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
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