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Computers are being redesigned to make them cheaper, but the software licence model is not following suit and could mean huge cost increases for enterprises and individuals, a survey has found.
Four major changes in how computers are designed are underway and few software makers are preparing for it, research group Gartner said in report on Monday.
"The fact that all four are happening at the same time is a recipe for software pricing mayhem," said analyst Alex Bona.
Software makers currently charge consumers and companies per individual user of their product.
New computers, however, have two or more processing cores to make it easier to execute simultaneous tasks, such as streaming Hi-Fi music while working on a spreadsheet. For many software makers, two cores means two individual users.
Software makers may continue to license their software per single microprocessor core, ignoring the fact that two cores do not make a computer twice as productive and that they may still used by a single person, Gartner said.
"Single core systems become unavailable perhaps as early as year-end 2006. By that time, many enterprises will pay at least 50 percent more in software fees from a number of mainstream software vendors," Gartner said.
Companies like Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and many other software companies base their licences on hardware capacity or central processing unit.
 News source: Reuters UK
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