Predictable Pay-For-Use Hardware and Software Licensing

By: Mike Costa Much has been written lately about pay-for-use hardware and software licensing – including the many benefits and drawbacks compared to the traditional, perpetual approach. Pay-for-use licensing comes in many flavors—SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, cloud computing, utility computing, etc. In general, these license models allow customers to rent all or some of the software and/or hardware for...