SaaS Blogs

I’ve been keeping tabs on SaaSCon and the speakers. A post on the SaaSCon Revolution blog seems to paraphrase Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad:

SaaS allows software companies to SCALE at a rate that is so much higher than traditional software companies.

This statement couldn’t be more true. One thing I tend to think about is the long term effect of what this means. In the future, I see scale as a commodity rather than a differentiating characteristic found only in the most expensive software packages and developed by the engineering and infrastructure elite. SaaS really helps define “Scale for the Masses.” As the industry moves in this direction, the focus can be moved to software functionality (the stuff that counts) and away from software overhead (waste of everybody’s time). That’s a beautiful notion;-)