Information Technology as Commodities
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This paper is about a model of software delivery known as Software as a Service (SaaS). We believe that companies will pay for software as they pay for electricity and telephone. They will pay for what they use. We present why and when it happened. That it came from the outsourcing idea and became possible by the advances in the Internet. Software retailers will become service provides. The main points taken into account by companies when choosing a service will be: cost, usability, availability and trustworthiness. This model allow companies to reduce its initial investments in software. This paper presents two case studies of B2T, a company in Brazil that is Software as a Service Provider.
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