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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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Monday, May 26, 2008 11:40 PM

Nephologist: The Hottest Job in the Software Industry!

Nephology (from the Greek word nephos for 'cloud') is the study of clouds and cloud formation. It seems to me that everybody in the IT industry wants to be an expert in cloud these days; cloud computing that is. Jokes apart, one thing I learned from the
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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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Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:06 AM

ISVs are from Mars, and Hosters are from Venus

It took us a bit longer than expected, but our latest white paper is finally here! This white paper goes through the sometime quirky relationships that exist between ISVs wanting to deliver their software as a service and Hosters. Here is an excerpt from
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:26 AM

Complexity does not go away, it just changes hands...

A law that I always found interesting in Physics is the the Lavoisier Law which states that the mass of a closed system of substances will remain constant. In other words, matter cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only change form. (just for the
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:20 AM

Efficient Software Delivery through Service Delivery Platforms

Several weeks ago, we wrote a introductory article on service delivery platforms published in the Architect Journal . If we don't count blog entries, this is our first published article looking into "running" software delivered as a service. Over the
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:08 PM

Intra-enterprise SaaS

Today, on his blog, Sinclair asks: Can the Fortune 500 Achieve Efficiency through Intra-enterprise SaaS? The answer is obviously YES! A lot of the concepts built in software as service such as multi-tenancy, meta driven customization, self service (try
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Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:05 AM

Either I don't get it or I'm calling (at least partial) BS on SaS 70

Please educate me on SaS 70 as either I don't get it or its importance is in my opinion overly inflated. I keep hearing from various analysts the importance of SaS 70 (preferably type 2) certification for SaaS vendors; and I of course hear a lot of SaaS
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:38 AM

Phil on SaaS Appliance

I read with interest Phil's post on SaaS appliance and how a few companies are using this model for " putting SaaS on-premise " as Phil says. Phil's commentary is very similar to what we had published in the past in our enterprise perspective white paper
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Monday, June 11, 2007 11:32 PM

Guess What? Fred's back!

After spending almost 2 months in China with our valiant Chinese colleagues, Fred is back to headquarters. Life in Redmond being much quieter than the "real life in the field", he has now time to blog again :) Here he shares his thoughts on Implications
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