Adobe announced it was halting future updates of its highly successful Adobe Creative Suite in favor of expanding the subscription-based Adobe Creative Cloud. This raised some eyebrows.
This SaaS platform enables unique “real” collaboration for decision making and solving complex business problems and conflicting goals.
The 2012 Key trends in Software Pricing and Licensing survey was conducted by Flexera Software with input from IDC’s Software Pricing and Licensing Research division under the direction of Amy Konary, research vice president - software licensing, provisioning and delivery at IDC. This annual research project looks at software licensing, pricing and enforcement trends and best practices. The survey reaches out to executives at application producers (Software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers) and enterprises who use and manage software and devices. Now in its eight year, the survey is made available to the industry at large each year.
The cloud market has experienced massive expansion since 2009 when SandHill.com published “Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Cloud Computing.” This article assesses the market and vendor outlooks today.
How will the software vendor landscape will change in 2013? Eight industry observers discuss the upcoming changes.