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Can ISVs Benefit by Moving to SaaS in a Bad Economy?


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 […]

How Important Is “Non Intrusiveness” in a PaaS Offering?


I recently had the pleasure of showing a demo of SaaSGrid to Eugenio Pace at Microsoft (who had some nice things to say about SaaSGrid in his latest article “Northwind Hosting exists, it’s better than what you saw and it’s called SaaSGrid“) A side conversation we had during the demo was the impact of PaaS […]

The Evolving Role of Hosts in PaaS & SaaS Enablement


Conversations in the SaaS enablement space tend to focus on companies offering cloud application platforms (such as our very own SaaSGrid), enablement technologies such as billing services offered by folks like Aria Systems, or players like Amazon that are pushing “closer to the metal” cloud utilities like file storage via S3 or virtualization constructs via EC2. […]

What PaaS Should Learn from the August 2003 Blackouts


We’re in an interesting transition within the software space. Specifically, we’re all in agreement that SaaS is changing the industry in a very positive way. More importantly, however, is the recent evolution of platform as a service (PaaS), which is where Apprenda lives. Recently, we’ve seen more and more noise around PaaS (both consumer and […]