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Re: [News] Server Goes Off the Desktop, Prices to Fall

Linonut wrote:

> * Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
> 
>> Software-licensing costs predicted to fall
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Gartner also predicts that a fourth of all new business software will be
>>| delivered by software as a service by 2011.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.news.com/Software-licensing-costs-predicted-to-fall/2100-1011_3-6219263.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
>>
>> Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to
>> drop prices
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Of course, it's going to take a long time to topple decades of wasteful,
>>| inefficient software practices, but we'll get there. Maybe it will take
>>| decades. But eventually customers will win
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9820038-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
> 
> Sooooo!  How much software do youuuu want to buy?

I spent a fortune on software this year. I paid for StarOffice on a new
machine. It was nearly £30. (puts flat cap on floor and wait for
donations).


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