Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
Matthew Gertner wrote: >Because this type of content consolidation is the poster child of hosted >apps. While it's true that the same technology could be applied locally, >this doesn't answer the key questions that initiated this thread: how do I >bill for these applications and how do I guarantee reliability, >trustworthiness, etc. > I am beginning to suspect that we will see two broad types of consumer web services - free, REST-y, provider hosted ones; and billable, SOAP-y ones which may well use some kind of billing and hosting franchise, and are more likely to integrate to non-browser apps on the client. In other words a distinction between the amount of financial and configuration investment required from the client. >Use of a hosted app gives you all the functionality you need and provides >elegant answers to these questions. > Indeed, but these questions apply more forcibly to billable web services than free ones. Francis.
|
