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You guys know that institutional Wall Street investors aren't total idiots, right? They know this as well as you do. On the earnings call yesterday, more than one person specifically asked about the impact on revenue numbers of the migration from one-off to recurring payments, and seemed satisfied with the answers they got.

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I'm not calling anyone an idiot, I'm just wondering whether their increase in share price is the result of developing new products or simply moving old products to a subscription model.

Creating useful /comparable to the end user editions of old (packaged software) products and offering them in a new way entirely is developing a new product.

People aren't simply signing up to pay by the month (though that can be desirable to some folks in itself). They're actually getting something different.

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