2. Making Software a Service
Developing your Software as a Service (SaaS) takes you away from the dark ages of programming and into the new age in which copyright protection, DMA, and pirating don’t exist. In the current age of computing, people don’t expect to pay for software but instead prefer to pay for the support and other services that come with it. When was the last time anyone paid for a web browser? With the advent of Open Source applications, the majority of paid software is moving to hosted systems which rely less on the users’ physical machines. This means you don’t need to support more hardware and other software that may conflict with your software, for example, permissions, firewalls, and antivirus software.
Instead of developing ...
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