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Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by rodgerd on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:27PM (#22498500)
> team has been the only consistent video game Cloud SAAS in the past 10 years.

Xbox Live.

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Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by Reubachi on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:55AM (#22504543)
The title of this thread is "Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions", and this comment thread delved into cloud SAAS providers with a flat org structure.

Steam/valve was brought up because they have a successful cloud SASS model with no subscriptions oand a flat org structure.

Xbox live has a subscription fee since day 1, is maintained by MS (the definition of "non-flat organizational structure"), and is vendor locked. Not even remotely comparable.

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