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Customization: curse or blessing?

At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...

Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-24

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News to know: Windows 7. iPhone in China, CircuitCity.com, Java, Google books, Apple history

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month Mary jo Foley: Windows 7: The incentives are...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Circuit City Stores Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-03

LongJump eyes fully portable, best-of-breed PaaS holy grail for ISVs going to the 'open' cloud

LongJump won't be alone in seeking the holy grail of a truely open, portable, extensible and neutral cloud PaaS approach, but they have my attention. We'll need to keep an eye on Salesforce, TIBCO Software, IBM, and Oracle/Sun on the topic. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Holy Grail, PaaS, Cloud Computing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-02

News to know: Conficker; CTIA; LotusLive Engage; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason O'Grady: Developers selling iPhone OS 3.0 on eBay Updated CNET News: BlackBerry App World has landed Ryan Naraine: Googling for Conficker clean-up...

Tags: Apple iPhone, CBS Interactive Inc., Consumer Electronics, CTIA, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Facebook, Hardware, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Software, Thecus

Blog posts 2009-04-01

LongJump puts PaaS on-premise

LongJump puts PaaS on-premiseIt's too badAs a purist, I agree with the article, none of the advantages of the Cloud can be gained by the creation "private clouds". These being:-Lower cost via economies of scale-Continuous innovation as a function of a greater ecosystem.-A constant "state of State of the Art"...

Tags: cloud computing, Longjump, PaaS

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

LongJump puts PaaS on-premise

In a move that will horrify multi-tenancy purists but bring a smile to the face of many conventional ISVs desperate to launch SaaS offerings of their own, PaaS provider LongJump has today made its platform available as installable licensed software. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: PaaS, LongJump, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-03-31

SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI

SAS is planning to spend $70 million on a cloud computing facility at its Cary, N.C. headquarters as it expands its on-demand offerings. SAS seems to be making a big bet on business intelligence software in the cloud, a concept that isn't expected to get a lot of traction.  ...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Software-as-a-service, On-demand, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Forrester Research Inc., Forrester Analysis, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam

Enterprise cloud computing gathers steamAs a small company, we will eliminate our internal computing infrastructureWithin 2 years, the only thing on site we will have is desktops and laptops. Everything will be on the cloud. We are even selling specialized application hosting to customers that we do not host at...

Tags: cloud computing, Enterprise cloud computing, PaaS, steam

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

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