GaaS
Cloud killing the enterprise software market? Hold that thought
“As their customers started figuring out that SOA success didn’t depend on buying new software after all, but rather was a better way to organize existing IT assets, now cloud computing may replace the need to own those assets altogether.”
Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors
The platform vendors are running scared. They were caught by surprise by the SOA debacle, and now they see the same writing on the Cloud Computing wall. As their customers started figuring out that SOA success didn’t depend on buying new software after all, but rather was a better way to organize existing IT assets, now Cloud Computing may replace the need to own those assets altogether. Imagine a world where <a href=”http://www.zapthink.com/2009/10/28/is-there-a-future-for-enterprise-software/”>enterprises no longer purchase software at all</a>! Why bother, when they can rent it on the Cloud, pay as they go, and never have to worry about maintaining or upgrading the big packages that have kept the vendors’ stock prices up for so long?
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