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Software as a Service is a topic of great interest in the ISV industry of late. Because end users increasingly demand a hosted option, many ISVs are assessing the ways in which their business models, technology and operations should evolve. We have a Read More...

It's been a while since I posted on this this (does it still qualify as a series?), but I'll continue and in the hope that I'll be able to pick up the frequency. In the first postings in this series, I discussed how I'd like to build a small CRM-ish application Read More...

My well-traveled laptop, now loaded with WPF demos on Vista, is on its way to my esteemed colleague John Wiese . I trust John will take good care of it and return it to me shortly. If not, I trust he'll ghostwrite a series of killer blog postings under Read More...

Two of the major enhancements to Office 2007 are the addition of ribbons and task panes for developers adding on to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other Office applications. Together, they represent a major opportunity for ISVs to leverage the Read More...