SaaS Blogs

Although my focus in life right now is CEO of Apprenda, I come from a software development and architecture background (I needed to put my Math/Comp Sci. degree to good use at some point in my life). Anyone who has written software in any “old” (in this case, the double quotes are for sarcasm) platform […]

I had the pleasure of reading a Structure 2010 follow up article written by Stephen Lawson titled “VMware’s Maritz: OSes are having their jobs stolen.” In it, Lawson outlines VMWare’s CEO Paul Maritz’ position that modern applications are relying on frameworks farther up on the stack for abstract services that used to be provided by the operating […]

If you haven’t heard, Salesforce.com and VMWare plan on making a joint product announcement on April 27th at http://www.vmforce.com. Clearly, this piqued the curiosity of many, including myself. Thinking about Force.com, Salesforce.com’s strategy around the platform to date, and VMWare’s activity and intent to become more entrenched in the Cloud, my best guess is that […]

This is a very good podcast of Phil Wainewright from The Connected Web interviewing Rick Nucci, CTO of SaaS integration vendor Boomi on the impact of multi-tenant architecture on the operational cost of delivering software in a SaaS fashion.
Two choice excerpts:
“SuccessFactors recently gave a speech, [by CEO] Lars [Dalgaard], talking about their architecture and their […]

I love the idea that a balance exists between ideology and practicality. Questions of ideology and practicality always arise when it comes to building software, building a business, and building a software business. SaaS is no exception.
Interestingly, I had two different discussions with people who were of the position that aspiring SaaS company’s should “put […]

Just a quick note: I just published an article in Datamation titled “How to Be a Cloud Computing Vendor”. The article focuses on clarifying the jargon that exists on using Cloud Computing Providers as substitutes to SaaS Platforms. 
Check it out and let me know what you think!
Cheers
Abe
PS: If you’d like to mingle with others in the SaaS space, […]

Hi everyone,
We had a great turnout last week for the webinar, and a number of people have asked if they could get access to the recording, so here it is. I’ve also compiled a list of some of the question from the Q&A session here, along with the answers.
Q&A
Q: We have our app completed, but are […]

At the OpSource Summit last week, Treb Ryan gave a great presentation that started with a simple (oft taken for granted) question: what is ‘the cloud’? Although this part of the talk was interesting, one particular part of the talk caught my attention. A third or so of the way through, Treb focused on the […]

Coghead’s departure from the PaaS world sparked plenty of interesting debate. One small debate that caught my attention started on Phil Wainewright’s post about Coghead’s demise with a comment by Microsoft’s Eugenio Pace, which then spilled into a post Eugenio wrote here.
To give a brief synopsis, Phil argues that Coghead’s demise and the subsequent stranding of […]

Coghead announced it was shutting it doors yesterday evening. For those unfamiliar with Coghead, it was a much talked about PaaS offering that offered an online application editor for rapid application development. They fell under the category of non-standard stack, a “4th generation language and runtime” (4GL) if you will. It seems that slow adoption coupled with the […]