Just as Francois Steyn cut through the opposition (the USA, home of Microsoft) over the weekend during the Rugby World Cup so the the developers of software are cutting through traditional business models. The traditional business model develops a package, freezes it on CDs and sells it like a commodity to users. Then they take another few years to develop the next version, all the while adding additional exemplars, templates, help files and security updates in the interim.
Contrast this with a business model such as Buzz developed by an 11-person start-up called Virtual Ubiquity. They have just been acquired by Adobe the Acrobat/PDF people who offer a range of other application as well.
What’s the unique selling proposition? Well, by having a word processor available as a service on the web every time you access it, it is the most up-to-date versions.
All this, of course pre-supposes that you have the band width to make use of such applications. That’s of course a political issue in this country.
After along absence! – this marks a bit of a come back
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