Are web/cloud-based dev and apps dist the future for LV?

[battler.]

The direction of software companies such as Microsoft and Adobe is that they are no longer distributing media for standalone PCs.  (we all know that if we didn't need to dist the hefty LV RTE life would be a bit easier)

You no longer purchase specific versions of their software instead you subcribe and login to have access to the latest versions from any location.

Examples are Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud.  Presumably the subscription arrangement for them is more profitable.

Will this (a) be the future for LV development environment; and (b) will this make it possible for developers to adopt similar strategies for distributing their own apps?

Currently is this something that the webservices features of LV can deal with to some degree?  I understand this is limited to a small number of concurrent users at a time?  I also understand that web-based are not exactly the same as cloud-based applications.

Is this something NI is not moving toward since LV has traditionally been tied to fixed hardware (i.e. data acquisition) applications?

Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing people's opinions..

[Hooovahh]

I can't speak for NI's future plans.  But I don't think a move like this would benefit much of the LabVIEW community.  I'm sure there are some that would fine a clound or web based distribution system convinient but for me many of the system I install LabVIEW, TestStand, DAQmx, XNET, and many other NI tools are offline perminently.  These computers don't get future Windows updates, or NI updates unless I make an effort to put them on the network, or bring over DVDs and external drives with updates on them.

So as for distributing NI applications I don't think this is a good move.  They already have a subscription based approach with things like the VLA, Enterprise solutions, and SSP.  Having the user go NI.com and download the tools you want has worked, and moving to a cloud application won't really work because NI users are quite diverse.  Office 365 works because if you use office, you use the same office.  But with LabVIEW there are so many 3rd party tools and libraries that the LabVIEW you use can be very different from the one I use.

As for distributing your own built applications I think this would be neat, but again not right for me.

[JÞB]

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@battler. wrote:

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Will this  (b) will this make it possible for developers to adopt similar strategies for distributing their own apps?

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will show how some of these features have been implemented 

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