SaaS Blogs

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;)