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- PaaS embraces client access licensing
- Platform-as-a-service is going through a similar rite of passage as conventional software did when it met the Web in the late 1990s - trying to work out the fairest way to license occasional users. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Enterprise Software, PaaS, Extranet, Coghead, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Business Services, Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Coghead Gallery signals new new opportunities for developers
- Coghead Gallery signals new new opportunities for developersInterestingCoghead's model is interesting and I will want to wait to see how it evolves.This has the real benefit of making online applications more lightweight. BTW I must admit I don't understand the meaning of today's increasingly in use phrase 'cloud computing'.
- Tags: Coghead, Coghead Gallery
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Office 2.0: The future of applications
- The application as we have known it is being redefined. During the Office 2.0 Conference, a panel of software vendors discussed the future of application and rise of Web-based applications with collaboration at the core. The panelists included Mark Bagley, vice president of technology at British...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Application, Office 2.0, Coghead, OpenSAM, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- JotSpot gets out just in time and gives into the G-borg
- JotSpot gets out just in time and gives into the G-borgGoogle doesn't care about making money?It's big picture time - Google will make big time money out of this. The models have changed, and businesses have to understand you're not playing the same game as your opponents. That doesn't make...
- Tags: Wiki, Quality, Groupware, Strategy, JotSpot, Google Inc., Coghead, JIT
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
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- PaaS and the patent trolls
- PaaS and the patent trollsSafety in the Long TailPhil - you are technically correct that a user could stumble into a patent infringement. But I believe these PaaS offerings for biz users such as Coghead will appeal most to the long tail of business apps - the apps that have...
- Tags: PaaS, patent troll
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- PaaS and the patent trolls
- Many of the emerging Platform as a Service offerings encourage business users or specialist business solution providers to create their own custom applications. From Coghead to Iceberg, Quickbase to Rollbase and Longjump to Zoho, the message is one of unlimited freedom to custom-build your own business process automation. ...
- Tags: Patent, Patent Troll, PaaS, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- More SaaS ISVs to let enterprises have it their way on deployment models
- More SaaS ISVs to let enterprises have it their way on deployment modelsOn demand or on-premiseYou raise a good point here - the problem is that the early crop of Platform as a Service vendors (e.g., SalesForce and Coghead) are offering proprietary hosting based on a proprietary development platform.This market...
- Tags: Sales force management, deployment model, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- RIA-related talks and companies at Web 2.0 Expo
- I'm going to be heading down to Web 2.0 Expo tomorrow and in looking at the schedule I'm really excited about the presence and sponsorships of several important RIA companies. I'll first start with the talks you should be keeping an eye on and then go down the list of...
- Tags: Web, Rich Internet Application, Web 2.0, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- News to know: Zune VideoX; Intel; AMD; Dell; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer? Vista SP1 available in more languages There's more than one way to mesh Larry Dignan: Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers;...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Telephony, Channel Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Coghead Gallery signals new opportunities for developers
- Paul McNamara, Coghead's CEO briefed Phil Wainewright and I the other day about today's announcement of the Coghead Gallery. While the concept of code exchange has been around for a while, to date there's not been an efficient way for the small development shop to discover...
- Tags: Developer, Amazon.com Inc., Model, Paul McNamara, Coghead Gallery, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Let the PaaS wars begin
- A month ago, I wrote about the plethora of PaaS options available from the cloud, setting out a five-layer model to categorize them. With last night's announcement of Google App Engine, it's all stepped up a notch. People are already talking about when Microsoft will bring out its own...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Gun, PaaS, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- A plethora of PaaS options
- A plethora of PaaS optionsApple and Oranges Compliment One AnotherGreat piece that gets beneath the oversimplification that often 'clouds' the discussion. ISV needs are definitely different than the enterprise. We are big fans of several platforms including Force.com (http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/02/may-force.php) and Amazon Web Services. In fact Appirio has...
- Tags: IT System, PaaS, PaaS option, plethora, Phil
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- A plethora of PaaS options
- About that show of hands. I didn't expect my straw poll at last week's SaaS Summit would produce only two hesitant supporters for Salesforce.com's Force.com platform-as-a-service model out of a room full of two or three hundred ISVs. But this was a conference organized by specialist SaaS hoster OpSource, and...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, OpSource, Application Infrastructure, Application Builder, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or die
- SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or dieWhat's the process for creating an SLA when you use cloud infrastructure?Phil - this is really interesting on many levels, but one of the things I am wondering is how does a SaaS application provider put together an SLA for clients when they...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, SaaS CRM, SaaS company, outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or die
- We may be approaching the end of the road for established SaaS vendors — like Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Concur, Taleo and RightNow — who build their own data center infrastructure instead of consuming infrastructure as a service. That's the message posed in a guest column on GigaOm titled How Not to...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Column, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- SproutBuilder - Using a Flex Application to Create Flash Content
- Over the weekend I got to see a really cool Flex application that is presenting at DEMO, Sprout Builder. Sprout is a rich Internet application that can be used to create other, smaller, rich Internet applications. It provides a powerful toolset and subset of components that can be dragged and...
- Tags: Application, Flash, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Enterprise SaaS and the cloud
- ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Red Hat unveils JBoss Developer Studio -- is it destined for an Amazon or IBM cloud?
- Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has finally released JBoss Developer Studio, an open-source Eclipse -based integrated development environment IDE that combines tooling with runtime. Red Hat released the beta version for free download on JBoss.org last August and said that the final subscription version would be available...
- Tags: IDE, Red Hat Inc., Environment, Amazon.com Inc., Tool, JBoss, IBM Corp., Development Environment, JBoss Developer Studio, Developer Studio, Open Source, Productivity, Development Tools, Java Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- LongJump debuts Web applications catalog
- LongJump has joined the parade of companies building development platforms and marketplaces for collaborative, Web-based business applications aimed at SMBs. At DEMOfall 07 the company launched 14 applications ranging from customer service to human resource management. User can customize applications and offer them through LongJump's catalog. To...
- Tags: Application, Web Application, Data Sharing, LongJump, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Human Resource Management (HRM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Salesforce.com and the Force family name
- Salesforce.com and the Force family namePlatform as a servicePure metadata apps platforms such as this are the next mega-trend in SaaS and all enterprise software companies will need to figure out how to deal with this over the next few years in order to compete, especially at the SMB level....
- Tags: Sales force management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Salesforce.com Inc., Platform as a Service, family name, Longjump, Intuit QuickBase
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
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