SaaS Blogs

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 […]