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- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaSre: USCODA has past experience of getting badly burned in the US and when I spoke to Roche about this, he said that the GTM with SFdC provides a significant degree of insulation against those risks.RE: CODA2Go and the economics of PaaSI think we need...
- Tags: PaaS, CODA2go, Coda
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Intuit enters the PaaS wars
- Intuit enters the PaaS warsGood move Quicken...Where's ADP?Phil: Great article on Quicken, and I agree that Intuit is an intriguing and formidable PaaS contender considering their customer base and experience. It will be interesting to see the creativity that Intuit's PaaS offering may foster to increase underlying value for its...
- Tags: PaaS, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Intuit Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Bungee integrates with the power of Amazon EC2
- I'm still catching up on Web 2.0 news but one of the interesting bits was that Bungee my coverage, the platform as a service company which lets you build, test, deploy, and track Ajax applications from a browser-based application, is now leveraging EC2 so that Bungee developers can deploy their...
- Tags: Developer, IDE, Application, PaaS, Amazon.com Inc., Bungee, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Intuit enters the PaaS wars
- The key to the success of a platform is establishing a virtuous circle of eager customers and willing developers. The technology is just the starting point. You need enough customers to create a market for the add-ons and applications developers create. It's even more important to get developers enthused about...
- Tags: Developer, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, PaaS, Intuit QuickBooks, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- How PaaS pulls software pricing down
- How PaaS pulls software pricing downMinor Errata CorrectionPhil:In your last paragraph, you state that customers would need to stay tuned into email in order to learn about service updates. That's incorrect. Actually, within their Bungee Connect developer accounts, customers will see available updates for their registered Bungee Application Server appliances....
- Tags: PaaS, software pricing, Bungee Connect, pricing strategy, software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- How PaaS pulls software pricing down
- Platform-as-a-service startup Bungee Labs this week released a new utility pricing model that really starts to put the spotlight on the pricing charged by established software-as-a-service providers. Bungee also announced what it calls 'federated hosting', which gives customers the choice of where to host their Bungee-developed applications; with Bungee in...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Application, PaaS, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
- Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service PaaS OfferingsI realize it might be 6 months before they open it up for businesses andhave paid service level agreements, but, Google is sounding very good right now as a way of delivering applications to customers. It is EXTREMELY expensive to host the applications yourself,...
- Tags: PaaS, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- Comparing Amazon's and Google's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
- The announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build apps on Google's renowned and highly scalable infrastructure underscored a key trend in the software industry today. Namely that software platforms are moving from their...
- Tags: Google Inc., Platform, PaaS, Amazon.com Inc., Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Is Facebook a PaaS contender?
- Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- xRM: Microsoft's other platform-as-a-service play
- xRM: Microsoft's other platform-as-a-service playI like Microsoft Cloud amazing: SkyDrive cautions for downloads and memory"Great Company comeback to be American proud of the Microsoft Global Network.
- Tags: xRM, PaaS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Let the PaaS wars begin
- Let the PaaS wars beginI expect that acquisitions in this will be fast and furious before too longBungee Labs wo;; be scooped before long.PaaS = P??? As A Service?I missed this acronym.Let me guess:Porn As A Service?Programming As A Service?Potatos As A Salad?Give us a hint!RE: Let the PaaS wars...
- Tags: AppEngine, PaaS, PaaS war
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- xRM: Microsoft's other platform-as-a-service play
- The amorphous term "cloud computing" includes lots of different service-delivery models -- everything from managed services, to utility computing, to software-as-a-service SaaS, as Infoworld outlined in a useful cloud-computing primer this week. And within these cloud subcategories, definitions are vague, too. Consider platform-as-a-service PaaS. Some are defining...
- Tags: PaaS, Microsoft Corp., xRM, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- 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
- 'Platform as a Service' enables cloud-based software development and deployment lifecycle approach
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Bungee Labs. On demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, software as a service SaaS is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too....
- Tags: Software, Web, Application, Software Development, PaaS, Customization, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cook
- Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cookPlatform as a service - will it be a realityWhat is platform as a service you ask.... and you will get many different answers. The response that the stack of hardware and software all the way to the application server...
- Tags: PaaS
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- 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
- Salesforce.com's new PaaS Fund: Is it Enough to Jump Start the PaaS Concept?
- Salesforce.com and its venture capital pals are trying to up the ante in the platform game by putting together a seed fund for start-ups that want to target SFDC's re-christened AppExchange platform, now known by the somewhat outré term: platform-as-a-service, or PaaS. According to published reports,...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Fund, PaaS, SFDC, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Investment, Marketing Research, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
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