[dba-Tech] Future trends

The eight software rules that need to be broken; a provocative front-page story from Optimize magazine.

1. Seat-licensing is the best way to price software.
2. Rising software maintenance fees are just another cost of doing business.
3. Customizing software is the only way for buyers to get what they want.
4. Software service and support quality decrease over the lifetime of the contract.
5. Software must be financed from the capital-expense budget.
6. The on-demand model is better suited for small businesses.
7. Customers must accept fewer choice as a result of software-industry consolidation.
8. Bugs and poor quality are to be expected in early releases of software.
Over and over again, each contributor emphasizes SaaS (Software as a Service) as the next big thing. Obviously Google and in reaction MS believe this. Perhaps they are right.

What do you folks think about this? Selling your software as SaaS rather than your current method?
 
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