In an interview with Steve Evans of CBR, Amar Hanspal (svp platform solutions and emerging business) said, "It’s possible that in four or five years time the Web 2.0 approach will be a much bigger part of the business." He was referring to Autodesk's desktop software.
I think it will be a hybrid between the two, partial cloud delivery and partial traditional desktop software. The design element would be on the desktop with the heavy calculations being done in the cloud.
How to make revenues from cloudy software? Mr Hanspal figures on charging customers pay-as-you-go or an ad-like model, where suppliers are charged to participate in the software.
hahaha. web2.0 4-5 yrs away. he's on top of it. Really, Mr Hanspal, in 4-5 yrs web2.0 won't hardly be a blip. I wonder if he's seen what going on now with what some coin as the 2010web or RWE Web, web3.0 stuff.
Posted by: Josh | Jul 01, 2009 at 01:43 PM
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Posted by: Scott Sheppard | Jul 06, 2009 at 06:50 AM