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Update from Microsoft PDC 2008


We’ve been here at PDC 2008 in Los Angeles all week and as many of you already know, this week has been all about delivering software as a service and cloud computing.  Ray Ozzie’s keynote really set that tone and kicked off the week. Microsoft’s Azure announcement is exciting - and it will be interesting […]

A Few SaaSGrid Updates


I wanted to drop a quick note and let everyone know that we’ve been very busy at Apprenda. We just deployed a significant content update on the Apprenda website in the SaaSGrid section. The content update goes into some detail about the various facets that make up our PaaS offering. We’re nearing our market release, […]

SaaS Business Profitability - Build for the long tail and get the rest for free (almost)


The following is a guest post to SaaSBlogs by Joel York at Chaotic Flow
Most SaaS businesses embrace the idea that Web-based delivery and a multi-tenant architecture create economies-of-scale and lower TCO. Hence, they price their annual subscriptions at 1/5 to 1/20 the cost of an enterprise license. However, these savings only occur in R&D and […]