14 DAY TRIAL // Every company that wants to keep its information and data secure has to invest some money in security applications or technologies able to do that. With limited funds, some firms are forced to choose cheaper solutions or even freeware products that obviously offer less functions than a shareware one. Think about the support, updates and patches which must be released every once in a while to keep the computer safe. But it seems that things will change soon as more companies get involved into the security industry. Gartner research vice president William Snyder said that corporates should negotiate for the security utilities they buy just like they do when it comes to hardware technologies, PC World reported today.
"Software buyers need to realize that the pendulum is beginning to swing in their favor and that there are an increasing number of alternatives in today's software market," Snyder said in the report according to the same source mentioned above. "We would advise IT organizations to use BPO and open-source alternatives to improve their negotiating power with software suppliers as well as employing the emergence of third-party vendors as a means to reduce higher maintenance fees on older versions of software."
Certainly, with more companies fighting for the same segment of users, the prices will be reduced while the quality and the features of the technologies they offer will become more powerful. This is one of the principles of the competition which is always supposed to bring better products on the market.
But do you think the new companies in this side of the industry will manage to face the competition and launch competitive products? I hope they will because we all need a more secure world without so many threats, viruses, spam messages, attacks and hackers that are continuously threatening our computers.