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Is Apple Getting SaaSy?

I have always like Apple's approach to leveraging the internet. Call it SaaS if you must. I guess it can be "The Cloud". But I love the beauty of the iPhone Apps architecture. Rich, elegant GUI on the device, powered by a connection to the internet in the back to run the app or store the data. This is SO superior to an experience of sitting in a browser based app, waiting for the screen to refresh. I will take that ANY day over some AJAXy looking app in a browser. I remain hopeful that Apple will deliver a Tablet-Like device that will further and expand this experience. Whether that is a bigger iTouch or something new and different and beautiful.

Save us from THE CLOUD Steve.

Salesforce.com's Outage: Will It Derail the SaaS Market?

This "outage" is an important datapoint in the greater examination of SaaS and the Cloud as the future of all enterprise applications. It works for some companies, it works for some applications. It is NOT the answer for everything, and as SAP seems to think, it's not the answer for total ERP for all from some time (never? see tinyurl.com/9yzo4o). Like many important technologies that come along, it has some promise. There is likely to be something else with promise next week.