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Corporate America Wary of Subscription Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oooh-look-how-fine-this-print-is dept.

medical_geek writes: "According to this article on cio.com, MS's subscription service is failing in the business world. I guess that personal users are not the only group that balks at paying a yearly fee for software. My question is have you at your job bit the bullet and signed up as an early adopter, or are you rolling the dice and seeing if this experiment fails?" This article focuses only on Microsoft, but the same analysis probably explains why ASPs haven't taken off like they were supposed to, either.

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  1. Re:"from the oooh-look-how-fine-this-print-is dept by posmon · · Score: 0, Troll
    I purchase Windows 2000 Server, Exchange Server, and the recommended hardware to run it on, and when it fails at half the advertised max load, Microsoft will gladly bill me for a support incident to tell me I need better hardware!

    everybody lies with performance figures. you should be fired for not evaluating your purchases properly.

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  2. Re:from my experience.. by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Either that, or you were selling useless garbage that could be done locally for no subscription cost.

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  3. Re:More quality than price, I think by sheldon · · Score: 1, Troll

    "The problem is that WinXP adds nothing to Win2k from a corporate point of view. "

    That's not true.

    "The new GUI? No use, since the older one is known by the users since 95, and the new one can be disorienting, despite Microsoft's claim of the contrary. Re-training is expensive. "

    Oh no! Having frequently used icons in the start menu is disorienting. Oh my god!

    ".net? Pure vaporware so far as far as real-world applications go. "

    No more so than using Linux.

    "Server-side, WinXP is just not there(TM), and it offers a total amount of nothing over win2k. "

    Furthering showing the author is clueless. There is no WinXP server product. The new server product is called .Net Server and will be released later this year, probably Q3 from what I've heard.

    "Also, software compatibility is still to be tested."

    It's actually pretty good.

    It appears to be babbling nonsense day on /.