End of Software, The: Finding Security, Flexibility, and Profit in the On Demand Future

Preface

The End of Software might be an odd title for a book authored by someone who has spent his entire career in the software business. But in many ways we stand at the end of an era for the traditional software industry—the end to the traditional way we manage software, the end of traditional software development, and the end of the traditional software business model.

The traditional software model, in which we create the software, stamp it onto a CD, throw it across the fence, and wish the customer luck is dead. It will be replaced by sofware delivered on demand where networks collapse the distance between the producer and consumer of software. In many ways we are at the dawn of a change in the software industry no less significant than the ...