As someone who has used Bloomberg's Terminal for 5 years: Bloomberg's sum of the parts product is far more valuable than the parts sold one by one - add to that the immediate top-knotch customer support 24/7/365 and breadth/depth of the data they have, Bloomberg is a killer product. IMHO, I really doubt any product decoupling will be of value to any of Bloomberg's current customers.
I'm not the only person to have thought about this - what about new guys who can use 'a Bloomberg' but can't afford the price? Is there a way forward for these guys to create new customers?
Absolutely, there are many customers left out at +$20k a terminal per year. The questions is, which of Bloomberg's services they want the most. I wished I knew the answer.