Business Implications of a Pay-Per-Use Pricing and Software Licensing Model

By: Cris Wendt Pay-per-use licensing and pricing models have a lot of cachet these days, especially as a model ideally suited to some cloud computing environments. But, behind a pay-per-use pricing and software licensing model are a lot of implications to both the producers and users of software that may not be obvious, or necessarily advantageous. Consider the following, which are a few of the...