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  • Open Source in a SaaS World

    About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) and cloud-based computing accelerates...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-15-2008
  • Time to Define "Platform as a Service" (or PaaS)

    Before joining Bungee Labs last year, I knew they were on to something big. I mean, really big. A big idea, an ambitious vision: to provide developers with end-to-end development, testing, deployment and hosting of sophisticated web applications as a service delivered purely in the cloud. Since we announced...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-19-2008
  • 8 Trends in Software as a Service Platforms

    To kick off the new year, I presented to around 40 or 50 members of Utah Technology Council ( UTC ) last week. The title of the topic they asked me to speak about was "Trends in Software as a Service Platforms". I searched around for some ideas and came across two recent posts predicting trends in SaaS...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-13-2008
  • Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers

    Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007
  • On Web Dev Trends in 2007

    Richard MacManus et al have published their web predictions for 2007 (prompting me to update the list I've been collating ). Great post and lots covered, so I'd like to comment on some of Read/Write Web's crystal ball gazing relating to web development. "RSS will go mainstream in a big...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 12-20-2006
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