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Today’s PaaS Offerings: Pragmatic or Unrealistic?


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 […]

According to ISVs, Salesforce’s Force.com is Not the Platform for SaaS


I bumped into a brief but impactful article by Renee Boucher Ferguson titled “ISVs Snub Salesforce’s Force.com Platform“. The post basically summarized a situation that occurred after OpSource’s SaaS Summit. Following a panel discussion on SaaS platforms, ZDNet’s SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright conducted a brief poll of about 250 software vendors asking the following questions (paraphrased):

How many people […]