November 7, 2011
Software Pricing Starts to Catch Up to Cloud Computing
Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.
One of the more confounding aspects of cloud computing is that software pricing is frequently out of sync with the way hardware is acquired. IT organizations can easily pay for hardware on an hourly, monthly or yearly basis. Software pricing, on the other hand, has generally remained tied to the number of processors being used on a yearly basis…
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