On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote:
> I find "pay-as-you-go" for my personal use to be a frustrating experience. As do I. I prefer "free." > I > prefer to pay once and forget it. Then I know that the software is good to > use as long as I like. So, you are _buying_ a perpetual software license. You are not _paying_ for a limited service. > Some of my software is 15 years old and still runs > fine. I paid in the low hundreds for it but the latest version is over > $1000.00. True of most of us here. But those are software licenses from proprietary vendors, not services. > I use "pay-as-you-go" for my Tracfone service and it drives me > crazy. Well, telephone scams are a very different model, especially in the U.S. Like cable pricing, I think they are an incredible ripoff. Pre-paid minutes, strange rollover rules, roaming and overage charges are classic monopolistic behaviors. Phones should be $600 and usage 3 cents a minute, flat. But that would be consumer-friendly. But I digress... I use github.com as a SaaS. For commercial projects where the other members of the team are widely dispersed, github.com gives me a web presence, a centralized source code control repository, some excellent metrics, some handy utilities, and it's a pay-as-you-go model. Backups are not a worry as the repository is duplicated on each developer's workstation, staging and production server, by design. But disclosure is certainly a concern. I have to trust the website has set their system up properly Pay-as-you-go and SaaS have great benefits to me: instant setup -- a project is live as fast as I can type, no install, configure, patch, tweak, test cycle - terminate when the project is over or goes dormant at no cost. So, the model has to be right for the customer and the circumstances. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4s7SBCrsUm32MeaDCgpW=eW2Wx2CyA=kesu7g25kkr...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
