SaaS Blogs

Both conversations with various individuals as well as recent news of goodies like Google Gears and Microsoft’s Silverlight made me think long and hard about SaaS and ‘offline mode’ (for lack of a better term). Starting at the mile high view, one thing I noticed was a clear distinction between intended and unintended disconnectedness. What’s […]

Hello from sunny Santa Clara.  We’re at SaaSCon 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center today and tomorrow.  From the looks of the exhibit floor and the sound of the early keynotes this morning  there is plenty of opinion and information floating around. An interesting keynote was the ”Evaluating SaaS Infrastructure” keynote which described the challenges of […]

This is just a mini-post to aggregate the plethora of commentary surrounding the announcement of Google Apps Premier Edition.  Phrases like “in direct competition with Microsoft Office” abound, but overall it’s apparent that there are still a tremendous amount of questions surrounding the maturity level of the application suite.
Here’s a bit of what’s being said:

Don Dodge - Microsoft Emerging […]

Generally, most of my posts introduce a topic, question, or label (we’ll call it x), and then I provide a y to describe and foundationally support x. Well, for this post I’m going the opposite direction. For this particular x, I find that the sheer mention of it causes people to cringe and howl. Instead, I’ll give you y first, and then x […]

It was written only a month ago, but Robert Mitchell’s article ‘Virtual machines: the new ghetto in the data center’ is a classic in my book. Mitchell’s article draws up the similarities between data center engineering and urban planning. Like city planners, service providers must be careful that the efficiencies they introduce to their load-bearing […]

The clamor and buzz surrounding on-demand platforms for SaaS has been growing steadily. I recently wrote an article on Marc Benioff’s latest platform position. In the video interview I reference, Mr. Benioff highlights some key, defining aspects of platforms. Although in the article I discuss a prevailing ambiguity in Benioff’s vision, I must say that I agree […]

Although the posts are old and the topic potentially stale, I recently read a few posts creating a Celebrity Death Match style arena for SOA and Web 2.0. Richard Monson-Haefel of the I, Analyst blog posted a comparison highlighting the similarities but describing SOA as missing the “social aspect”, Don Hinchcliffe has a good thorough treatise on […]

Matt Ammerman recently forwarded me this diagram, which describes the evolution of programming languages in a timeline fashion. Although in the back of my mind I was aware of how many languages exist(ed), to see it laid out is remarkable. Computer Science as a field has gone through massive change, with programming languages defining a […]

My last blog post discussed a certain security flaw with Windows. I submitted it to the Microsoft Security Response Team, and they opened a bug for it, so it looks like people cared after all;)