Context

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Learned in this study

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Things to explore

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Overview

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Cartalyst

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• https://cartalyst.com/
• 75$/3 months
• 25$/month
• Subscription-based model

Models

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Subscription based

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• Some development must be done in order to protect the software against forbidden use (no subscription)
• May require a “call-to-home” (Internet connection) to verify the subscription is still valid
  • Might be easily countered by firewalling the application
    • We may allow it to go unchecked for 1-X days until we tell the user to connect, but that is bad user experience

Examples

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• https://www.ripstech.com/pricing/

On demand

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• Similar to subscription based, but on a per use basis

Examples

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• https://www.ripstech.com/pricing/

Open source

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• Code is freely available
  • Makes it more difficult to live on producing the software

Support based

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• ($X*0.2)/user/year in support fees
• Fee per request

Traditional - Major version and upgrades

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• X$/user (one time fee)
• ($X*0.2)/user/year in support fees

Software as a service

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• Tools are never shared with the outside world

Consultancy

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• Develop tools to use on a per-project basis, where clients spent 5k$+ on a single pass
• Tools are never shared with the outside world

See also

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References

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• http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/seven-software-business-models-part-1