> Sometimes we forget that the old software model of offline or customer-installed (client, or server, on premise) also has fees attached to it, in the form of

> Sometimes we forget that the old software model of offline or customer-installed (client, or server, on premise) also has fees attached to it, in the form of a license you have to keep maintaining. Often yearly. A lot of the enterprise on-premises software that I use (from Atlassian, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) come with perpetual licences. The annual maintenance cost is for support and for updates. I can think of a few exceptions that only have term licences, like IBM PurifyPlus, but based on my personal experience, a majority of on-premises software falls under the former category.