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Thin clients, a.k.a. "dumb terminals" with a prettier UI. (not more functional, quick or useful, but awesomely prettier) From a software standpoint, there are
by EternalFury 13y ago
Thin clients, a.k.a. "dumb terminals" with a prettier UI. (not more functional, quick or useful, but awesomely prettier)
From a software standpoint, there are now 2 categories:
1) Software as a service
2) Software as an end product
"1)" is more honest, because your customers only care about the service and you have nothing to gain by churning and regurgitating new-old-new-again ideas every 10 years in order to keep scoring new license deals.
"2)", well, I said it already: As a software vendor, you have no financial interest in selling anything that won't need to be replaced at least once a year. Hence, the constant renaming of recurring concepts over and over and over...in order to keep license revenues coming in.
- nitrogen 13y agoIt's interesting that you describe SaaS as more "honest"; it's like describing the loan shark in the back alley as more "honest" because he admits up front that he's charging an arm and a leg (perhaps literally) to borrow some money. Though I use many SaaS offerings, I still prefer installable software as much as possible because once I own it, I own it forever. For example, Windows XP may reach EOL next year, but existing, activated copies aren't magically going to go away at that time.