Open Source As A SaaS Endgame: Google Wave’s Rebirth And Its Future
Regular readers of this blog know that I have long been advocating Open Source as a SaaS Endgame. It is my argument this kind of escrow will help build customer trust on SaaS, especially from smaller SaaS vendors. This is the beauty of open source. It not only reduces the risk for SaaS users, it [...]
Are We Nearing The End Of Google Wave?
Techcrunch has a post talking about the possible demise of Google Wave, its much hyped real time collaboration platform. Even though it is not completely unexpected, it is a bit of a shocker for me personally. Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow [...]
Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More
I recently revisited my “open source as a SaaS endgame” theory quoting a news about another web app releasing their code under an open source license before shutting down the shop. As I do with many of my posts here in Cloud Ave, I was wearing my evangelist hat and it resulted in the crux [...]
Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Storytlr Joins The Elite Group
Many societies believe in the idea of Afterlife. As far as the human life is concerned, I do not believe in this supernatural concepts. However, when it comes to software “lives”, I believe in eternity (a life without death). I believe that a software can live eternally without the death faced by the lesser mortals, [...]
Open Source As A SaaS Endgame: Etherpad Goes Open Source
In January of this year, I wrote a post urging the SaaS vendors to open source their code. In the same post, I also posted a public request to SaaS vendors to open source their app before they shut down. I strongly encourage vendors to open source their SaaS applications much like Wordpress, Deki Wiki [...]
Open Source as a SaaS Endgame
Image via CrunchBase As an Opensource evangelist, I have been strongly arguing in favor of Opensourcing the SaaS applications. I have also argued how it can reduce the risk for SaaS users and improve their trust on SaaS. Another area where Open Source can add value in the SaaS world is in building the confidence of the customers. There is [...]
