SaaS Blogs

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 […]

If you’re an ISV considering SaaS as a delivery model (whether it’s for a new product or migrating an existing one), you’re going to inevitably bump into SaaS platforms as a potential means of building your service. Once you do, you’re presented with two options: (1) build a fully integrated SaaS offering yourself which includes your actual […]

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 […]

For some time, I thought I was alone in battling the cloud taxonomy war. With SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, RIA, etc. being tossed around on a regular basis, I often find myself looking for clarification when it becomes obvious that someone’s definition and understanding of one of these acronyms is different than mine and those that […]

I wanted to drop a quick note to everyone that today we’ve announced SaaSGrid’s public release. I wanted to thank everyone that is part of the SaaSBlogs community. I’ve had lots of interesting conversations (both online and offline) with readers. Many of those conversations directly have affected how we approached SaaSGrid as a technology and […]

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 […]

It’s difficult to argue that current economic conditions have a silver lining or that somehow SaaS is immune to it. In fact, Trip Chowdhry recently remarked that 1st generation SaaS companies are hurting and have dim future prospects, with SaaS startups facing a bleak fate as well. That said, ISVs facing declining or stagnant revenue streams may […]