Further justification for the on-demand model: get bug fixes faster. If anybody tells you software doesn’t break – they’re lying. Software is fallible. Sometimes the best QA misses the most tiny error that only one person in a billion will ever come across. But with SaaS it gets fixed fast, and it gets fixed for every customer simultaneously.
From the post:
Of course, conventional on-premises software vendors already realize that this is an advantage and are straining to rearchitect their legacy code along service-oriented lines. These projects, variously named Fusion, NetWeaver, Nexus and Dynamics are due to bear fruit sometime between 2007 and 2012, if anyone can be bothered to wait that long.
Read more at the Software as Services blog at ZDnet
