Last week I spent a few hours at Xero HQ in Wellington. Partly I was in need of some connectivity and the Xero guys kindly let me use their WiFi (thanks team) and partly to sit down and have…
Jeff Kaplan tries to clarify where he sees the intersect of cloud computing and SaaS. His post is in response to many people using the two terms pretty much interchangeably. Jeff says that; In my case, I view cloud…
A big barrier to all the good changes that networks communities can bring, is the speed at which the gatekeepers and validaters allow their world to be changed. The fact is that there are a lot of project management…
The Xero crew have a quandary right now. As the graph below shows, The percentage of their users utilising ie6 is fairly small. ie6 also has some inherent flaws in terms of security and current standards compatibility. Because of…
As RWW reported, Google docs was down for 30 minutes last week. Part of the RWW included a poll asking respondents what sort of downtime would make them reconsider using Google docs. The results are even more interesting considering…
Rod posted, in light of the recent Microsoft S+S announcements, saying that traditional sales channels may not add value to the new world of SaaS delivery. He then turned this around to suggest that what is needed is a…
Sometimes it’s hard to know how to take Ellison’s missives on SaaS. Bear in mind that Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, is also the founder and largest single shareholder in Netsuite (and also a major shareholder, for good measure…
Stacey Higginbotham wrote a provocative post that fired up a lot of people detailing 10 reasons why cloud computing won’t take of within enterprise. The post is great – but more importantly there are some exceptional responses from different…
I noticed the other day that Saasu have changed their pricing strategy – after comments from their customers, they determined that a much simple pricing structure was in order and delivered one. It seems there are two distinct strategies…
When Microsoft revealed Equipt the other day (Diversity coverage here) there was much discussion as to whether it amounted to the totality of MS’s SaaS offering). Well we didn’t have to wait long for an answer. At its worldwide…