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The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?
Blog The statement Laurent made during his 15 minutes presentation that made me sit up was his assertion that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors, specifically CRM system vendors, should look towards moving to their fee model to one based on business...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
.Mac may prove a hard sell for Apple
News By imposing an annual fee on Web-based services that were previously free, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is taking his company deeper into the murky waters of paid consumer services. For an annual fee of $99, customers can use Apple's servers to...
[July 18, 2002, 12:43]
IBM plans revamp of server pricing
News For its Solaris operating system, it charges a per-server support fee based on how many processors the system has. In days of yore — say, up to about two years ago — the server software licence fee typically was linked to the number of processors...
[July 25, 2006, 8:40]
Sun to base pricing on UN economic data
News The exact licence fee to be offered to any one country will be set, albeit indirectly, by the United Nations; fixed according to the international governing body's economic development and census data for developing countries.
[June 2, 2004, 15:15]
Microsoft prepares smartphone challenge to Apple
News The store has been very successful with users downloading thousands of free and fee-based applications. For one, the company's business model is based primarily on licensing software to hardware vendors.
[February 10, 2009, 9:50]
Open source business email moves closer
News It intends to make money by charging corporate customers a licence fee for a more functional Network version and a yearly support fee based on the number of mailboxes used. Using an open source business model and a modern development technique...
[November 15, 2005, 9:05]
Free office suite reaches milestone release
News The free OpenOffice uses the same code base as Sun Microsystems' fee-based StarOffice. Under the open-source development model, the application's original code is freely available for developers to modify and redistribute, as long as the...
[May 2, 2002, 13:08]
AOL delivers unmetered nationwide
News Unlike SurfTime it charges a fixed fee to ISPs, allowing providers to work out the costs of providing customers with unmetered access before announcing services. Previous unmetered models floundered because ISPs could not balance the books...
[November 8, 2000, 11:54]
Sources: AOL not bidding for Red Hat
News While Microsoft controls the source code to Windows and charges a fee for every copy sold on PCs, Linux uses an "open source" model, where companies also have the right to install as many copies of the operating system as they wish.
[January 22, 2002, 9:13]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
News It cannot be based on proprietary software model [where companies pay a per-user licence fee] as this is the opposite of our business model," said Piana. Server interoperability information provided by Microsoft under royalty-bearing licences may...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
Software sales model shifts
News A subscription model, where customers pay a regular fee in place of one upfront purchase, are best suited for applications such as email or customer relationship management, rather than custom-built applications, she said.
[November 18, 2005, 10:20]
Electronics makers to launch recycling study
News HP last month launched a fee-based service that lets consumers and businesses arrange for pick up of obsolete electronics goods. In the third, industry funds pay for promotion, education, coupons and rebates; retailers charge consumers a drop-off...
[June 25, 2001, 11:48]
Could "Fremium" social media evolve into a pay once unlimited access model?
Blog I am questioning whether, as more and more sites look to charge their users a fee for premium access to features, the potential exists to pay a single fee for premium web usage which would give unlimited access to all subscription/fee-based websites?
[July 7, 2009, 14:18]
IT services target small businesses
News Everdream and CenterBeam offer everything from PCs to Web access to tech support to hosted applications, all for a single monthly fee. They found a hole in the market, and they're filling it, but [their model] can be easily replicated.
[September 28, 1999, 10:59]
Microsoft .Net goes back to the drawing board
News The original plan to offer fee-based services to consumers is still being worked out and has not been abandoned, said Adam Sohn, a product manager at Microsoft. We got feedback both from the business model as well as the technology that we needed...
[May 13, 2002, 9:25]
AOL and Freeserve draw battle lines
News AOL UK recently introduced a flat-fee access charge of one pence per minute which Burrington siezed as an opportunity to attack Freeserve. ADSL users will pay a flat monthly fee for the service, although prices are yet to be decided.
[October 21, 1999, 12:43]
Yahoo unveils ad-tracking service
News A Yahoo spokeswoman said a fee will be charged for the service, but declined to reveal the cost beyond saying the service would be "competitively priced". The new service is based on econometric analysis that uses statistics to create a...
[December 19, 2005, 15:20]
Pressplay to offer unlimited downloads
News Stung by tepid market reception to its online music subscription service, major music label-backed Pressplay plans to offer listeners access to an unlimited supply of music for a set period for a single fee.
[August 1, 2002, 7:41]
ASPs tapping into lucrative B2B market
News ASPs would host the applications that customers could access from any desktop for a fee. The problem: though ASP analysts are bullish, many companies in the ASP sector have not formulated strong business plans and are still struggling to increase...
[February 16, 2001, 12:24]
Microsoft's Tellme deal may boost Live efforts
News Tellme hosts the set-up from its data centres and gets a small fee for each call that it handles. The fact that Tellme has a different business model was part of its allure, said Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes.
[March 22, 2007, 9:08]
