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Sitting in deployment – Microsoft Hohm goes live

Other than a few minor DNS hiccups, Microsoft Hohm went live this morning. The team’s been sitting in a conference room on campus since about 5:30 this morning watching things spin up. We’re triaging other issues, but so far there have been no show-stopper
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What does SaaS mean (to me)

I've been thinking about this software-as-a-service thing for many, many years now (prior to joining MSFT I wrote one of the first internet chat applications with my buddy Scott, and later on I worked on the leading internet-delivered skills assessment

What do I mean by hostable LOB application?

At the risk of upsetting a few people, I'm going to take a shot at defining what I think a hostable line-of-business application platform might look like. Those of you familiar with the CRM platform will recognize quite a few of the concepts. First, by
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Any uptake on the RSS connector for CRM?

Is anyone actively using the RSS connector CRM? If so, how are you using it and did you customize it any way? If not, what are the reasons for not using it? This is really for my information. The CRM team might watch this space and have some desire to
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Easing the release tax burden

I've started thinking again about how to release software quickly. This isn't anything new to me, I've spent a long time with several start-ups working out the details of getting a release into customers' hands, getting their feedback (sometimes immediately),
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Announcing the RSS connector for MS-CRM 3.0

We've finally released the RSS connector for MS-CRM. I've mentioned this tool a few times . This has been a long release mired in a few documentation, legal, and technical issues. But, that's not your concern, you probably just want to download this thing,

Three faces of SaaS

I was talking to some folks yesterday about this whole Software as a Service thing. While we were talking I started trying to define to myself what SaaS is. Now, I know there are many smarter more experienced people doing the same and that there is no
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RSS and CRM - a little history

Wow, just over a week since MS-CRM hit the big time and showed up on stage during a PDC keynote. That’s pretty cool. So, how did it get there? Well, the product is really cool and might have made it up there on its own merit. But then again, this is a
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Web services aren’t distributed objects

Why do we continue to try forcing a distributed object model into the world of web services? Nowhere in the name is there any hint that web service architecture has anything to do with distributed objects. Nowhere is there an implication that there are
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