I keep getting e-mails from Ashampoo for their name-your-own-price software blowout. This blowout has been going on for about year, apparantly, if my memory serves me. Is this what software is coming to? Are we all going to become flea market salesmen? I don't think so... I hope not... Who can tell, though. Software as a service may save us but the software has to deliver continuing quality, security, and stability before that happens, though. That will segment the markey firmly into two or possibly three sectors: 1: software from companies like Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, etc, 2: software from the flea market development companies, 3: niche software.
We can all just hope that the market sorts itself out QUICKLY!!! Or has it already?
I have to wonder, though, do the flea market vendors make us all look cheap or the rest of us look better? Or both?