Software Business
Is the subscription economy over, and what should software vendors and businesses do to stay relevant?
Should you say goodbye to C/C++ development? CISA says you should by 2026 due to cybersecurity concerns
Things change with time. Earlier in my career, most of the software products I was responsible for were built using C/C++, and it was common that being good at it required really good programming skills from the developer. I also remember running into bugs caused by memory “pointers,” which were hard to find. However, C/C++…
Read MoreIs the software industry moving away from user-based pricing to agent-based pricing?
Ibbaka shared an interesting newsletter describing how Salesforce’s Mark Benioff (founder and CEO) is yet again redefining the software industry. Mr. Benioff became famous with his “No software” statements when leaving Oracle and forming Salesforce.com, which was purely based on SaaS and could not be installed in an on-premises environment. The software market has been…
Read MoreHow do you monetize your AI features and examples from known incumbent companies? A study of 44 companies (Part 1)
Is the EU killing efforts around AI due to different regulations?
According to an Axios article, Meta won’t offer future multimodal AI models in the EU. This is Meta’s response to EU regulators and “highlights “a growing willingness among U.S. tech giants to withhold products from European customers. According to the article, Meta will be releasing a multimodal Llama model over the coming months, but not…
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