Camilla

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    • Fri Dec 7th 10:27 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      SaaS Companies Vulnerable in a Recession
      An interesting, but possibly skewed take on the issue.

      Given a nine month time frame for a recession I would think that 'all' software suppliers would be feeling some sort of pain. It's not as if the established 'real' software suppliers do not rely on a process of continuous 'improvement' to keep the money flowing in.

      I'd hazard a guess, and you imply it yourselves, that the 'poor' performers are WEB2.0 centric suppliers of SaaS where the product quality as such may be dubious and, of course, there is the 'lock in' that you mention. It might be 'cheap', it might be 'quick' and it might be, at face value, responsive and flexible, but, is it dirty?

      There is much talk amongst and from the suppliers about implementation of platforms on which the end user will be able to make their own contribution to the product base. It sounds very WEB2.0 community paradigm but does that mean the customers are now expected to contribute to the vendors profits.

      And all this is really in its infancy so what sort of wave are people trying to ride. If you dig deeper then you will find that the base langauges for this sort of thing are really just abstractions of any common object oriented language but they are being built on or within restrictions set by the delivery method.

      The problem is that the foundations for them are still being laid and, at the moment, all we have is sand which appears to being built on more sand.

      Of course I'm only here to mention the other available delivery model for SaaS which is Streaming SaaS. This is the real deal.

      Established software companies with an investment in real programs written using proper software now have an opportunity to deliver their product in a way that makes WE2.0 SaaS look like the toy it really is. And they don't have to re-write or cripple anything to get the job done.

      There are noises from Microsoft in this direction. However the new (but old) kid on the block is Endeavors Technologies.

      www.endeavors.com

      Do yourselves a serious flavor (sic) and check out what a Streaming SaaS model might do for you. The revamped version of AppExpress is now available for download at..

      tryitnow.endeavors.com...

      That's the Lite version and it is free. Q1 2008 the Application JukeBox is tagged for release.

      So, before you go breaking what you have got in order to jump on the 'New Paradigm' wagon just make sure someone else didn't go and re-write the 'Paradigm' whilst everyone else was shouting about the New one.

      Camilla
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