Software on demand

Computing (11 October 2007) this week features a story by Tom Young, Online software is in demand, which talks about new products launched recently, which "are hosted and accessed in real time rather than being installed on in-house systems". Adobe, IBM, Google, Yahoo are all either developing or releasing products, in an attempt to compete with Microsoft's dominance. The software-on-demand model offers a number of benefits around updates, licensing, virus protection, flexibility.