The growing trend is that software-as-a-product may be reaching the conclusion of its dominance. Sure they’ll still be around decades hence,
but the majority of their use won’t be in packageware as they have been since the heydays of the computer revolution. Rather, the growing relentless trend toward the concept of software as a service will be the rage instead.
The idea isn’t to let customers buy packaged software, then install and wait for it to configure itself — or in the case of businesses, with the help of consultants (paid separately, of course) whose interest it is to keep things sophisticated and difficult lest they go out of business– but rather to just lease applications with a monthly or regular fee rather than pay licensing fees up-front and deal with the many costs and headaches after. This frees a company from the many costs involved in purchases, installation, maintenance, upgrades and everything else they call the “total cost of ownership.”
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