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do you think this flood of suits will create an bunch of companies whose business model relie on the menace of a licensing compliance audit?
by nraynaud 9y ago
do you think this flood of suits will create an bunch of companies whose business model relie on the menace of a licensing compliance audit?
- arethuza 9y agoNot really - it's entirely possible that the historical Microsoft licensing model (i.e. the kind that needs an audit) will pretty much disappear to be replaced by per-use costs (per user for SaaS and per capacity/storage/messages/... for PaaS and IaaS).
- Spooky23 9y agoNo, now the model is to sell subscriptions that you don't use, instead of shelf ware software. The beauty of that is by underutilizing infrastructure, they get to enhance the services margins. The ugly is that you're always going to be in a vicious circle where you buy lots of bundled services that your service provider doesn't want you to use.
- yuhong 9y agoMy personal favorite is Server 2003 custom support (I am pretty sure custom support was never intended to make as much revenue as it did): https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/6b79sw/custom_support_and_ms_quarterly_earnings_rsysadmin/ https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/6b79sw/custom_su... Twitter by Pinboard: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/863410684192845825 https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/863410684192845825
- johansch 9y agoI think this flood of suits will end up being employed by tier 2/3 "software" companies or unemployed.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoI think calling people suits, nerds or bean counters is rather rude.