Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’

After my previous posts on PaaS, JP Morgenthal (Twitter: @jpmorgenthal) and I have had some offline conversations. The discussion resulted in JP putting together the following blog post. He has graciously allowed me to post it here at ServiceMesh.com. It should be noted that the issues JP identifies below are largely restricted to public PaaS. Private…

Isn’t buying and using cloud supposed to make our lives easier? The simple answer is yes, just like a car makes it easier to get to and from the grocery store quickly and with enough room for groceries for a week.  However, that doesn’t mean that owning and taking care of your car is always…

Gartner recently made the following prediction about the growth of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model for IT solutions: “Worldwide SaaS sales will eclipse $8.5 billion, up 14.1 percent from 2009 sales of $7.5 billion. More telling, this rapid increase in both customers and SaaS vendors means that on-demand applications will make up a larger percentage…

Eric Knorr asks an interesting question over at InfoWorld: Will Google buy Salesforce next? It's an interesting thought. Eric's analysis is that if Google really wants to make any headway in the enterprise applications space, it better buy its way into the market. Google Docs has seen limited uptake, but Salesforce is used by literally…