Easing the SaaS-to-cash cycle

SaaS is a cash hemorrhage.: SaaS is just another way to make the customer pay over-and-over-and-over again for a product that they already bought. It offers no benefit to the customer, and a huge no-cost revenue stream to the supplier. In these days of ever-tighter budgets and credit-crunch, customers are not -- and will not be -- looking for a cash hemorrhage.

Customers want to buy the products they need, and extract the maximum value from them. SaaS is the polar opposite of this.

Rental software is the goblin of the deep dark centralized mainframe days, returning as a new boogieman to threaten computing's future.

We aren't buying into it.

Software providers should try writing usable, stable, and secure solutions instead of trying to wring more cash out of their victims (umm ... I mean customers). Better solutions will drive more sales and thus create more profit for the vendor. This is the true path toward sustainable growth.

As always, this is just my $0.02 USD based on nearly 30 years in the industry.

Regards,
Jon; Posted by: JonathonDoe Posted on: 10/09/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Credit crunch rnayak | 10/09/08

SaaS is a cash hemorrhage. JonathonDoe | 10/09/08

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