VMware Has Plans For Zimbra
Ever since VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo in January of 2010, there were speculations about VMware plans up the stack. VMware hasn’t talked about their strategy at the application layer of the cloud stack yet but they are taking steps to integrate Zimbra with their platform and push it aggressively on the enterprise market. Yesterday, VMware [...]
Is SaaS Dead? No. Neither is Debate.
We’ve had email dead, resumes dead, wikis dead themes, now it’s apparently time for the SaaS is Dead meme, thanks to a recently published Gartner report. My favorite quote from the report: SaaS is not a panacea, and companies need to evaluate and understand the trade-offs that SaaS presents Indeed. Here’s another quote from Gartner [...]
SaaS v. On-premises Software: Which One is More Green?
(The following is a guest post by Chris Thorman @ SoftwareAdvice.com) In case you haven’t heard (or aren’t obsessively following IT trends like we are), the great trend in software is the evolution from traditional “on-premises” software (e.g. client/server software installed at the office) to Software as a Service (SaaS) (i.e. web-based applications that are [...]
Moving From On-Premises to SaaS, Thoughts on Revenue Corrosion
Image via CrunchBase A recurring theme for me in my writing is the pain that traditional on-premises vendors feel when considering, or actually making, a move to SaaS. Recently I posted about the success Callidus has had with this very move. Within days of that post I was contacted by Ariba software, a vendor in [...]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it [...]
