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Back up your online data. Now. | Software as Services | ZDNet.com

Tags: backup, saas, failure, startups on 2008-11-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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It's becoming hard to distinguish open source from SaaS | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News

It's becoming harder and harder to discern between open-source and SaaS companies. Their revenue looks increasingly similar, as do their business models. It's becoming hard to tell, for example, whether SugarCRM is a SaaS company or an open-source company. In reality, it's both, and it's hard to tell where one begins and the other ends.

Tags: open source, saas, on-demand, software, business model on 2008-10-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Nick Hortovanyi : Getting off of SaaS

Now I'm looking at Salesforce.com, and am trying to investigate the work required to move to say SugarCRM, either hosted myself or by an on-demand provider. Are there tools available for me to export my complete CRM data from Salesforce.com and then import into SugarCRM? Not that I can find.

Tags: saas, salesforce.com, portability on 2008-09-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A Cloud-Filled Debate - Forbes.com

Michael Saylor vs Nick Carr

Tags: cloud computing, saas, debes on 2008-09-12 -All Annotations (19) -About

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over-hyped
yes, and that's typical for technological advances
big companies, I would say it will be a slow, steady process lasting maybe 15 to 20 years.
Cloud computing is starting to work in the consumer world
banks
security advances
businesses use applications that are too unique
software as a service, you can't replace the applications of the global 2000
too unique
I won't use some off-the-shelf software."
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- Really? But they already are using off-the-shelf sotware, on-premise, e.g. SAP and Oracle
  posted by zoliblog on 2008-09-12
possible to write and run custom apps on a cloud grid
economies of scale
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- Oracle, SAP vs Salesforce question completely ignores difference in functionality.
  posted by zoliblog on 2008-09-12
Gartner Research analysts call "the cycle of hype and gloom,
near the peak of its hype. The doom period, when the media and IT managers realize the challenges ahead, is likely coming soon. B
you'll see word processing in the cloud that allows you to avoid buying Microsoft Office. What you won't see are American Express's fraud detection systems hosted in the cloud