SaaS offers manufacturers the ability to update every existing installation of their software.
Whether open source or closed source, once you find a bug, you have to assume the "bad guys" know as well.
At that point, you wonder about the guy who's on a fishing trip and has no idea his small business server can be randomly pwnt by a published exploit.
If a major blog software author found they had a crucial vulnerability in a software version shipped two version numbers ago, they would like to be able to update it before the bad guys found it.
That is what SaaS offers that desktop software doesn't. The exception is if a very simple runtime is created within a client environment, like a browser, which also makes the installations simpler and more uniform.
400 years of industrial history suggests that streamlining and creating uniformity increase reliability and profits.
Microsoft is wishing they had SaaS'd Windows in 1995, as all those creaky old machines running windows 98, 2000, and early versions of XP get pwnt by trojans run amuck.
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SaaS offers manufacturers the ability to update every existing installation of their software.
Whether open source or closed source, once you find a bug, you have to assume the "bad guys" know as well.
At that point, you wonder about the guy who's on a fishing trip and has no idea his small business server can be randomly pwnt by a published exploit.
If a major blog software author found they had a crucial vulnerability in a software version shipped two version numbers ago, they would like to be able to update it before the bad guys found it.
That is what SaaS offers that desktop software doesn't. The exception is if a very simple runtime is created within a client environment, like a browser, which also makes the installations simpler and more uniform.
400 years of industrial history suggests that streamlining and creating uniformity increase reliability and profits.
Microsoft is wishing they had SaaS'd Windows in 1995, as all those creaky old machines running windows 98, 2000, and early versions of XP get pwnt by trojans run amuck.