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Phil Wainewright is an influential commentator and strategist on emerging software industry trends. He first spotted the significance of on-demand software services in 1998, when he set up ASPnews.com, which rapidly became a standard-bearer for the nascent industry. He sold ASPnews in January 2000 and went on to found Loosely...- more about Phil Wainewright »
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- What Google Gears means for SaaS developers
- Google's announcement of Gears has handsomely fulfilled the first of my end-of-year predictions for on-demand, made back in December:"We'll see more and more on-demand vendors coming out with clients that support offline working. In fact, I think we're going to see an important debate developing in the SaaS industry about...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Google, Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- They saw the Silverlight, and saw that it was good
- Robert Scoble is trying to build a reinvention myth around Microsofts introduction of Silverlight, its new smart client platform. Not so fast, Scoble! Its not the Web thats rebooting, its Microsoft. Silverlight is significant as the catalyst that finally allows Microsoft to recreate itself as a vendor for the Web...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- AppStream: ASP throwback or SaaS savior?
- I had an interesting conversation last week with Paul Valcheef and Brian Duckering of AppStream, a company with a long and checkered history of streaming applications over the Internet for execution on the desktop. The way it works is that AppStream sits on a desktop PC or other client and...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- RightNow zaps perpetual licensing, talks up smart client
- On-demand CRM vendor RightNow Technologies has always insisted on giving its large enterprise customers what they want, even to the extent of offering on-premises installation and perpetual licensing to those customers that insisted — two options that most on-demand vendors would consider as anathema. But as from this quarter, RightNow...
- Tags: CRM, Ecommerce, Rich Internet Applications, RightNow
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- SaaS in 2007: Composition instead of integration
- While the Web 2.0 crowd get excited about the superficial appeal of simple mashups, SaaS vendors have been quietly equipping users with do-it-yourself composite application tools that help them get their jobs done faster and better. My prediction is that 2007 is going to see an explosion of these DIY...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), composition, DIY enterprise mashup, tool, integration, software-as-a-service
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- SaaS in 2007: reaching out to offline users
- Just a few months ago, I got flamed by several usually friendly bloggers for pointing out Why Office 2.0 will never go wholly online. Timed a few days before the Office 2.0 conference, my posting was lambasted as "wrong and naive" by Stefan Topfler, while Dennis Howlett said I was...
- Tags: on-demand, Socialtext, Collaboration, Architecture, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Pushing the envelope of consumerization
- On-demand vendors are at the forefront of the trend towards consumerization of enterprise applications, redesigning their software to emulate the look-and-feel of popular consumer-oriented Web sites such as Amazon.com, eBay, Google and MySpace. Their pay-as-you-go business model motivates on-demand vendors to maximize user uptake and return on investment. Therefore they...
- Tags: SFA, Rich Internet Applications, Entellium, Sun Java Studio Creator
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- AJAX and the richer Internet application
- The upcoming launch of Macromedia's Flex Builder development tool is a timely reminder that the AJAX crowd didn't invent the idea of Rich Internet Applications RIAs. Flex redeems Macromedia's ubiquitous Flash browser plug-in, which earned notoriety as the originator of all those useless and highly annoying 'skip intro' pages built...
- Tags: AJAX, DreamFactory
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
Additional Resources
- Cast Iron's lifecycle SaaS integration play
- A new generation of Cast Iron's SaaS integration appliance adds functionality that now addresses what you might call the SaaS lifecycle: everything from data migration through to cloud-to-cloud integration. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Integration, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 1.4 bln Internet users in 2008
- Roughly 1.4 bln people ill use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 bln unique users, or 30% of the world’s population, in 2012, according to IDC. Users will access the Internet through more than 1.5 bln devices worldwide in 2008, including...
- Tags: Internet User, Mobile, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone gas application roundup
- On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Global spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
- Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total 65.2 bln USD in 2008, which is nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media, according to IDC. This share is expected to reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to $106.6 bln worldwide. by NB
- Tags: Internet Advertising, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 50% of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008
- China’s online population is forecast to grow from 275 mln users in 2008 to 375 mln users in 2012, according to IDC. Nearly half of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008. By 2012, there will be more than 1 bln online buyers worldwide making business to consumer...
- Tags: Internet User, B2C, Internet, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1
- The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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