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 [...]
Coghead Shuts Down And SAP Picks It Up
Yesterday, Techcrunch added Coghead, a PaaS vendor, closed the shutters down, putting their users in some serious jeopardy. This also raises the question critics of Cloud Computing raise during the course of the fear mongering they unleash to protect their bases. How can we rely on Cloud vendors when there is a real danger of [...]
SaaS Risk Reduction – Barack Obama Data Breach and Why We Need to be Smart About SaaS
Image by radiospike photography via Flickr I started writing this post after learning about the data breach that happened to President-Elect Barack Obama. Midway through the post, I decided to make it as a part of SaaS Risk Reduction Series. This is the fourth post in the series. Recently, the tech blogosphere was buzzing with [...]
SaaS Risk Reduction – Open Formats
Image by Paul Jacobson via Flickr This is the third post in the SaaS Risk Reduction Series. In the previous post, I talked about not keeping all eggs in one basket. There are people who will not consider it as an important aspect of risk reduction. Even though I disagree with the idea, they do [...]
SaaS Risk Reduction – Don’t Keep All Eggs in One Basket
Image by cyanocorax via Flickr This is my second post in the SaaS Risk Reduction Series. In my previous post titled “What is your Cloud Strategy”, I talked about the need for diversification and it met with some serious opposition from my fellow Cloud Avenuans, Zoli and Ben. In this post, I am going to [...]
