Crash may force software price cuts
3 April 2012
Purchasers could benefit from a software pricing war as e-commerce companies fight to shore up their tumbling stock-market valuations, according to a leading industry analyst.
“E-business projects still have to go ahead because they are the only way of finding efficiencies. What this might do is dramatically change the price companies are willing to pay,” Nigel Montgomery, research director, e-business Europe, for AMR Research, told SM. “I think there might be a price war, with reductions of around 25 per cent over the next three to six...