No Yawn Intended: Enterprise Applications Giant Introduces a Mid-tier Support Choice
P.J. Jakovljevic - May 9, 2006

Event Summary

A recent series of articles has highlighted—at great length—the price for value conundrum which has long affected both enterprise applications vendors and users. On one hand, vendors would like to have well-oiled business models that promote stable and recurring revenue streams, which in turn ensure future product and service enhancements. To be fair, one should also acknowledge the revenue recognition guidelines that publicly owned US companies have to abide by, which promote the current perpetual software licensing, service, and maintenance arrangements...