Virtualisation could end expensive long-term software licensing in favour of a pay-per-use model, according to Symantec.
Executives at the company said that year- or months-long licences covering multiple machines could be slashed to pay-per-day, per-hour or even per-second licensing deals using virtualised applications.
Virtualised or streaming applications, where software is run on a central machine and streamed to computers over a network, allows monitoring of precisely how long each instance of the software is used.
Ken Berryman, vice president of endpoint virtualisation at Symantec, said: "You can detect application usage so you can cut the number of licences down to what is being used.
"There are a lot of customers that would like to use that to only have to pay when using the software but there is resistance among vendors to change the licensing model.
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Symantec sees pay-per-use future for software
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