Wanted to share this article from Fortune Magazine / CNN Money website called 'Big Software has duped us for decades'. Roger Burkhardt does a pretty good job of describing how enterprise software licensing actually works... I've included some excerpts and added a few reader comments as well...
Was reading Managing Automation’s blog The Edge by Jeff Moad and he poses the question, “ Where Did All the Big Software Deals Go? ” Jeff says: …lingering reluctance on the part of manufacturers to commit to significant technology purchases contradicts a core argument made over...
This is a good question and one that deserves more than a short blog post answer. So, am glad that Jeff Cope at Extensible CAD Technologies used it as the title to his third article in the 3 part product evaluation series of the Aras PLM software solution suite. In this segment of his evaluation Jeff...
The way enterprise PLM software is licensed to businesses is wrong, end of story. Pay now. Pay later. Pay extra. Pay more. Traditional PLM licensing schemes are complicated, confusing, expensive, and broken… and their days are numbered. To understand this requires experiencing it first-hand. Get...
Last week Aras was launched in Greater China. The interest level in the Microsoft open approach for PLM and Quality management solutions is particularly high throughout the region. Businesses in Asia are increasingly recognizing the need for PLM solutions as they move up the value chain and concentrate...
Recently, I was asked by the Product Development & Management Association ( PDMA ) to present on our innovation and corporate transition to an open model. The PDMA was interested in hearing about our transition: What were the motivating factors? How did we address strategic planning? What management...
Graham Bell at MCADCafé recently conducted a podcast interview with Aras president Peter Schroer to cover the market impact that the Aras Microsoft enterprise open source approach is having and how it works. Listen as Peter explains how companies are taking advantage of the Aras solutions’ open source...
What impresses me the most about open source is the change in relationship between the software developer and the end users. Without a sales-person in the middle, this is a healthier relationship built on collaboration, not on cash extraction. End-users continue to pay for the things they value, and...
A significant problem facing corporate IT today is the vast numbers of power-user and end-user developed business applications written in Notes, ColdFusion, MS-Access or Excel. Why do the end-users continue to build these micro-applications? Because the high costs and effort required to customize the...