Comments on: Technological Obsolescence http://www.pushkarsane.com/life/technological-obsolescence/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pushkar Sane http://www.pushkarsane.com/life/technological-obsolescence/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Pushkar Sane Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:32:20 +0000 http://www.pushkarsane.com/?p=205#comment-12 Agreed Parag - SaaS is the future. The trick is to figure out a business & pricing model that is not based on 'One Time Charge' approach. Thanx for the comments. Agreed Parag – SaaS is the future. The trick is to figure out a business & pricing model that is not based on ‘One Time Charge’ approach.

Thanx for the comments.

]]> By: Parag Sane http://www.pushkarsane.com/life/technological-obsolescence/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Parag Sane Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:11:06 +0000 http://www.pushkarsane.com/?p=205#comment-11 you are absolutely right about the technological obsolescence - although extending it further we will realize that we generally do not anticipate the obsolescence when investing in technology. If one has to compare the obsolescence in hardware and software - generally its a tendency that hardware gets replaced faster and is upgraded because either its not compatible with the software anymore or its too slow to produce a certain amount of work in a given time frame. Where as software - sometimes the vendors play the trick and force their customers to upgrade even if they do not want to because they will not support the version any further. As per my understanding one solution can be worked out to over come such kind of costs and issues which are incurred by customers and end users is to think about SaaS (software as a service model) - where the service provider or enabler has to think about the upgrades and keeping their technological backbone in line with the latest advancements. This will not affect the enduser as he gets to use the latest piece of technology at his disposal. And if the provider isn't ready to upgrade the client has always an option to opt out and go to some other SaaS provider. cheers Parag you are absolutely right about the technological obsolescence – although extending it further we will realize that we generally do not anticipate the obsolescence when investing in technology.

If one has to compare the obsolescence in hardware and software – generally its a tendency that hardware gets replaced faster and is upgraded because either its not compatible with the software anymore or its too slow to produce a certain amount of work in a given time frame.

Where as software – sometimes the vendors play the trick and force their customers to upgrade even if they do not want to because they will not support the version any further.

As per my understanding one solution can be worked out to over come such kind of costs and issues which are incurred by customers and end users is to think about SaaS (software as a service model) – where the service provider or enabler has to think about the upgrades and keeping their technological backbone in line with the latest advancements. This will not affect the enduser as he gets to use the latest piece of technology at his disposal. And if the provider isn’t ready to upgrade the client has always an option to opt out and go to some other SaaS provider.

cheers
Parag

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