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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Per-seat software licenses may soon be obsolete.
- Most software will soon be purchased by agents.
- Prepare for consumption-based pricing models.
Goodbye, per-seat software licensing? Goodbye, software as a service? Vendors ahead in the artificial intelligence (AI) space — the OpenAIs, the Anthropics — may begin to eat application vendors’ lunches, forcing the latter to…

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