Comments on: The Big Acquisition Day http://www.techper.net/2008/01/16/the-big-acquisition-day/ About Technology in My Life Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Antenore http://www.techper.net/2008/01/16/the-big-acquisition-day/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Antenore Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:34:48 +0000 http://www.techper.net/2008/01/16/the-big-acquisition-day/#comment-82 Maybe yes, IMHO... Software as service... I give you the software for free, software that it's optimized for my hardware, support that will be included for free if you buy my hardware, and so on. How? I bought Mysql, my developers will optimize it for sparc and for solaris. I will act as controller and I'll give precedence to patches and features related with my platform. It's a good business deal, isn't it? Maybe yes, IMHO…

Software as service…

I give you the software for free, software that it’s optimized for my hardware, support that will be included for free if you buy my hardware, and so on.

How? I bought Mysql, my developers will optimize it for sparc and for solaris. I will act as controller and I’ll give precedence to patches and features related with my platform.

It’s a good business deal, isn’t it?

]]> By: C0 http://www.techper.net/2008/01/16/the-big-acquisition-day/comment-page-1/#comment-12 C0 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:31:57 +0000 http://www.techper.net/2008/01/16/the-big-acquisition-day/#comment-12 > So, are they a software manufacturer? > Well yes, they construct software, but do they sell it? Ah, they claim that they sell service for it :) > So, are they a software manufacturer?
> Well yes, they construct software, but do they sell it?

Ah, they claim that they sell service for it :)

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