Are SaaS & recession killing perpetual software licenses?
Even Microsoft, the most visible champion of perpetual licensing, is starting to embrace subscription models as it adds more Web-based services. But experts say there are plenty of reasons why perpetual licenses, while unfashionable, are nowhere close to being on the way out in the enterprise.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Perpetual licences can be good for startups
I like the comment that the purchasers sometimes prefer the security of supply that can be facilitated by perpertual licences. I notice that most startups seem to have a strong preference for subscriptions, even if that means they are raising more capital to provide them. I wrote about this in more detail: economics of software as a service, in particular suggesting that early stage companies look at their cost of capital before deciding their licensing models.