Thursday, August 20, 2009

Problems with SaaS

There is a growing trend to rent software rather than buy it (Software as a Service).

It sounds like a good idea, you get to use software without paying for a server.

But what happens if you decide in the future, the rental you are paying is getting out of control (you may well start off paying a licence for 5 users and eventually require 10).
Now you want to take all that information and host it for yourself. You can't unless you can buy their software, good luck with that!

nuBuilder can be hosted on our server or anyone elses, it can be backed up to your local drive when ever you want and if you want to move hosting providers, all you need to do is install nuBuilder (which is free) and reload your backup!

This is good Risk Management.

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