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What is VMForce?


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 […]

Do you have to leverage “X as a Service” to be a SaaS provider?


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 […]

Demystifying The Cloud: Where Do SaaS, PaaS and Other Acronyms Fit In?


I’m sure we can all agree that the number of acronyms and phrases related to online software keeps growing rather than shrinking. In order to make sense of it, we really need to focus on understanding where different concepts fit in from a big picture perspective. For example, I am often asked if Apprenda’s SaaSGrid […]