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- PaaS embraces client access licensing
- PaaS embraces client access licensingAt least they offer SSLI checked out this company and they seem to address a few of the concerns for PaaS and SaaS.That being SSL. So at least when communicating with your web apps it would take an unreasonable effort to sniff your data traffic.However I...
- Tags: cloud computing, extreme user, PaaS, client access licensing
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- 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
- Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channel
- Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channelSaaS and PaaS still not an Enterprise SolutionInternet based solutions whether they are software or platform do not pass any type of sanity test.1. Data ownership. No matter what the license agreements always have 2 clauses that allow them to do what ever they...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, PaaS, storage
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channel
- Rather than letting the advent of SaaS and PaaS wipe them out, many solution providers are eager to find ways of embracing the opportunity these new business models present. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., PaaS, Intuit QuickBooks, Synergration, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- When thinking PaaS, think about it in terms of audience
- Software as a service has turned into platform as a service (as if we needed another "aaS") and as this application battle royale gets underway developers need to think about these efforts in terms of audience. For instance, Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which makes cloudware--rich Internet...
- Tags: Intuit QuickBase, Platform, PaaS, Salesforce.com AppExchange, DreamFactory, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Sales Force Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- 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
- 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
- What Salesforce.com and WebEx have always talked about doing with their PaaS platforms, Intuit is now doing with QuickBase -- and with a much bigger developer ecosystem. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Developer, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, PaaS, Intuit QuickBooks, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, 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
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