Software products and services .

I was reading an article today in ET  about contemporary software services  and products in India . India is globally known for it’s IT services  .But the article was about the products companies emerging in India.I suddenly realized that I was able to go through the article rather swiftly.That was because of the question posted in one of the  Software Architecture slides (What is the difference b/w Software product and services ?).My familiarity with the topic got me thinking . The article was describing different companies coming up in S/W products sector in India . I think the author was under emphasizing the need to develop in software product space . That is because of the fundamental development of Computer .Computer is new ,people around haven’t got used to it . Currently this provides the opportunity for the services industry  to develop ( Which basically is to help people use Computer .).What will happened in a couple of decades is that people will get accustomed to computer ,operating one will be counted as the skill on same level as speaking , writing . From then onwards there will be much more scope for Products than services .Even if the services  flourish it will be because of the products they use . A large chunk of revenue will go to the products .Other factor to explore products  is that service sector is near saturation . It is no longer viable  to grow by just adding more and more people . It is like in AOE , you could buy gold temporarily by selling woods  , but it is more wise to get some of your villagers to gold mine from lumber camp .Also because the lumber camp location is know to the others they will come after it . Ironically  it may cause you to sell gold for wood .

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