[THIN] Re: Gates "The Era of Software"

This is exactly what they said 7-10 years ago and it still hasn't happened!!!  
......lots of oohs and aahs but it involves changing the mentality of millions 
of computer users...good luck with that.
Maybe some of you can't remember all the ASP's that have come and gone (and 
most all are gone save a few) over the years but I can.  Remember the 
Futurelink Fiasco? The industry was booming in the 90's and then the bottom 
fell out because no one could sell the model for an extended period of time. 
JK

Matthew Shrewsbury <MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have to agree. Software over the Internet (ASP) will be big. The major draw 
back is very few companies have gotten it right. Another huge factor is 
software vendors don?t want to sale the software or even give you a copy. They 
think that if you don?t have it you can?t pirate it. 

 

Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+

Senior Network Administrator


-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Nick Smith
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:14 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Gates "The Era of Software" 

 

Disagree. At my (SME) end of the business, people want to have the same 
software on all machines with no big occasional upgrade costs. We rent Office 
to lots of companies, and they love the fact that we do ? their only complaint 
is that we can?t do it for Sage, Act, Goldmine, etc.

 

May be different at 00s or 000s of licences end of things, though.

 

Nick

 

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From: Jim Kenzig http://Kenzig.com [mailto:jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 02 November 2005 15:21
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Gates "The Era of Software" 


 

OMG... didn't he learn from the miserable failure of the ASP industry that 
tried to do this 7 years ago? There were about 7 companies out that tried to 
"lease" Office..all gone today. 


 


  People want to own their software. (or at least a license to it.) Good luck 
on changing that mentality. 


http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Gates_We_re_entering_live_era_of_software/0,2000061733,39220359,00.htm


 


JK

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