Poll: Software-As-A-Service - Innovation or Exploitation?
(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5)
Loading ...
Loading ...Here’s an interesting poll on whether their users are interested in paying software monthly, by The Escapist magazine. As of this moment, 9:30 PM July 4th (why the he** am I blogging?), 81.5% (22) said no and only 18.5% (5) said yes. According to the site,
The Escapist Features cover digital entertainment culture with a progressive editorial style, with articles and columns by the top writers in and outside of the digital entertainment industries. A weekly publication, the Features’ magazine-style updates offer content for a mature audience of entertainment enthusiasts, industry insiders and other “NetSet” readers.
So the site is definitely not your typical enterprise software focused sites. However, I would assume some of the gamers are also corporate workers. It’s interesting that large percentage of their audience (though the sample is fairly small) are not interested in SaaS.
So would you be interested in paying monthly for software, aka SaaS? Leave a comment and let us know what SaaS product you are currently using or planning to use.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Unfortunately these polls don’t have enough voters so that the results mean anything significant. As a SaaS we’d love to get our hands on a more widespread poll like this
Also, I suspect different audiences will vote differently. Talking about gamers, they’ve already been SaaSing for a while in World of Warcraft, Second Life, and other online worlds.