To: Jurgen Trautmann who wrote (5000 ) 1/15/1999 9:59:00 AM From: MonsieurGonzo Read Replies (1) | Respond to
JT; RE:" Software - Product or Service ? "briefing.com e-tail companies to the WallStreet analysts; eg., reducing cost per connect hour is equivalent to increasing bandwidth ; vertical applications will grow more rapidly (next) because traditional "economy of scale" is not so important on the 'net; popularity of content on the 'Net appears to be Sex, Gambling, Sports, Stocks and News , in that order, etc....License oriented businesses (software) will become service oriented businesses. "machine , so he could patent the idea and sell new machines (or the design for thereof) to the steel industry, in an age before hardware and software paradigms existed: the model was the Steam Engine back then.recycling that creates sufficient margins, payback, etc. for huge-scale, traditional primary metals companies to "make recycling work" and invest/go into the recycling business.a new machine , rather, it was "a way of dis-assembling and re-assembling scrap metals in such a manner that alloys could be manufactured from what were essentially randomized, mixed-alloy flows coming back to the metal producers from the metal product consumers".via time-sharing to my client companies, and charged them for this service , along with training, maintenance, etc.microcomputers and sold "instruments" that could be rolled on to the factory floor; my business model changed, and I was in the "industrial instrument" business.PC , and licensed a software product. Until recently, the only change was that single-user Licenses were expanded to Site Licenses that consisted of networks of PC's running throughout the plant, rather than a single workstation placed where the metal-making process was directed. I remember that, in 1985, the idea of "Licenses" for intellectual property was still somewhat new; hell - back then, "computers" operated by workers on the plant floor was still a radical idea in many places.the internet . In many ways, I feel as if I have come full-circle, for the internet reminds me of time-sharing , at least from the programmer's perspective... though most of the young wizards today have no idea what "time sharing" was like.intra-net .my software business is concerned, it is true that "the licensing business" is evolving (back?) into "the service business" model that I started with 25 years ago.results in dis-possession of software for indivuduals ; ie., in the future will all "software" never be "possessed" by the consumer again - will all software become, then, (de-evolve?) into a "service business" instead ?
