Oh, absolutely. Service brings convenience to the backoffice and money! Libraries suck to support and hard to sell.
Of course users want libraries but vendors want services. There are plenty of examples where something could've been a library, if the vendor had user's interest at heart, but instead it's sold (or rather rented out) as a service.
Go to Amazon marketplace, for example. Virtually everything there is a product that should've been a library but is sold as a service...
Of course users want libraries but vendors want services. There are plenty of examples where something could've been a library, if the vendor had user's interest at heart, but instead it's sold (or rather rented out) as a service.
Go to Amazon marketplace, for example. Virtually everything there is a product that should've been a library but is sold as a service...