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Monday, August 25, 2008 4:05 PM

Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint

Although cloud storage fabrics are very cool, a lot of multi-tenant applications will be build against a database. Based on some work we did on our super famous sample application LitwareHR :) , we just released a blueprint providing guidance on writing
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Monday, June 23, 2008 9:05 AM

Make a movie on S+S and win a trip to Macau!

A couple of months ago I wrote an article providing a high level explanation of the basic concepts of S+S, now my friends in Asia Pacific need your help visualizing this article through a great video. Anyone can participate – whether you’re
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:18 PM

Cloudy Future for the Enterprise and most likely for ISVs too

As I mentioned previously , the study of clouds (cloud computing of course) is becoming a very popular topic in the software industry. In the last couple of weeks alone, I read tens of articles on the subject. I found many of them proposing various type
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:50 AM

You liked LitwareHR v1, You loved LitwareHR v2, You are going to die for LitwareHR 'cloud storage' edition :)

More seriously... Eugenio just announced and released on Codeplex the latest drop of LitwareHR. Although the application UI was treated with a welcomed 'facelift' (we were told that LitwareHR UI was "too 1990s"), the main effort for this release
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:44 PM

An "S+S World"

Below is an diagram I have been using for a while in my presentations on software + services (more about s+s here ); so due to popular demand :) here is an explanation of it in my blog. The image is meant to represent the new (or evolving) relationships
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Friday, January 18, 2008 5:28 PM

Monetization: the next frontier of SaaS / S+S architecture

Over the week end, I was looking at AMZN DevPay announcement and I started thinking in more general terms about the architectural impact of different monetization schemes. At a high level, software / service monetization can be put into 4 main categories:
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Monday, December 31, 2007 9:50 AM

2008 the year of INTRAnet-SaaS / INTRAnet-S+S

In the next couple of days I might have fun again and offer my 10 or so 2008 predictions as I did in 2007 . (many of which I think are still very valid) but in case I don't, I wanted to make sure that at least this one gets out. - 2008 will be the year
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 2:51 AM

No Hobbits but great chat with Lukas

When I went to New Zealand I did not manage to see any hobbits but I had the pleasure to record an ARCcast i.e. architecture podcast (direct link to podcast here ) with Lukas Svoboda ; not too surprisingly, we discussed Software + Services and SaaS from
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