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Software Maintenance Plan
Customer-specific Software maintenance plans by Excellone
Web Solutions Development Company, India are suitable for constant updation
of expired software and timely installation of new web tools and applications.
These software maintenance plans ensure that the customer website is sustained
in a lively manner. Any website worth it's salt has to have a definite
software maintenance plan. Software maintenance necessarily means updating
expired software, developing new software and installing new web tools
and applications. Most websites today are wary of the rising costs of
licensed software.
The Internet is the wellspring of open source and the focus
of many of its applications. Software licensing is about to change in
a big way. According to a survey of both software vendors and major business
customers by IDC, the long-time model of perpetual licensing will soon
be replaced by subscription-licensing plans, in which vendors and customers
adopt a pay-as-you-go arrangement that extends over several years. The
boom in software maintenance plan agreements is more of a trend, rather
than just a sign of the current economy. Customers expect to spend more
on maintenance than on licensing, and vendors need to react in order to
stay competitive.
Microsoft's Software Assurance program is essentially a subscription-based
maintenance agreement, in which companies buy the right to upgrade to
a newer edition of software during the time span of the plan. Although
this has taken some serious shots from disgruntled customers, Konary sees
it as the model which other major vendors are most likely to follow. While
Microsoft may have stumbled with Software Assurance, other vendors will
learn lessons from its efforts.
With Linux and Apache, the pioneers of open source software,
growing in stature and demand, the days ahead shall see a surge in free
unlicensed software which will be a boon to websites in formulating a
software maintenance plan, well within their budget and ambit. Unless
the website is keen to update its database and software content periodically
or rather at regular intervals, it would be difficult for them to keep
track with the sea changes taking place in the world of software.
The need for software maintenance
Software maintenance plan is also of importance like the
website maintenance plan. Software and applications are transforming into
better versions at the bat of an eyelid. If the website continues to function
with outdated and outmoded software, it would be shunned by discerning
users, in the due course of time.
New software are trimmer and faster and it would be in the
website's own interest to keep updating the expired software. Similarly,
the very nature and design of the websites have undergone drastic changes
on account of availability and installation of new web tools and applications.
Where licensed software has become costlier, Open Source Software has
come out with cheaper versions, with negligible costs comprising of the
entire source code and all. There is in fact no excuse for the website
promoter not to go for software upgrades.
Open source is the best option for the budget conscious website
promoters who are considering software upgrades. If there's a roadblock
to universal open-source adoption, it's the lack of industrial-strength
enterprise applications to run on Linux, things like CRM and ERP. SAP
was the first major ERP vendor to offer its software on Linux, followed
by all the others who have now pledged to do the same.
The shift also means that more vendors will switch from emphasizing
licenses to flaunting beefed-up software maintenance plans, a change that
Microsoft has made with its Software Assurance program.
Maintain and survive
Simplifying licensing may address that need, but it's not
an easy chore, even as companies speak of the glories of utility and on-demand
computing. The tools required to accurately track such usage on the software
side, as opposed to the hardware end, don't really exist. Open source
is slowly but surely filtering into the enterprise and transforming the
way software is designed, sold and supported.
Any website owner without an open-source strategy this year
will be paying too much for IT, the next year. Open source is helping
turn significant chunks of the IT infrastructure into commodities by offering
alternatives to proprietary software. With all these changes happening,
one should not be left out or found wanting as far as the software maintenance
plan is concerned. Periodic updation of expired software and prompt installation
of new web tools and applications are the crux of software maintenance.
At Excellone Web Solutions Development Company, India, we
can help you devise a budget-oriented, utility-centered software maintenance
plan with the provision for updating expired softwares and installing
new web tools and applications inclusive of content and multimedia up
gradation at unbelievably down-to-earth contract rates. We are able to
offer these rates, having gained all-round excellence in software maintenance
through our teamwork, technology and experience. Constantly updating our
bank of software, web tools and other important and vital applications
so that the spin-off benefits of such studious work could be percolated
down to the needy web clients; has enhanced our ability to provide low
cost software maintenance services to our clients, irrespective of whether
their needs are rudimentary or advanced.
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