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I remain skeptic about any attempts to break out SaaS value/price in a pure TCO, like in this article by Barry Rosenberg and Craig Wright on techweb. If nothing else, simply because of the (human) random nature of choosing …

Google Apps is already grabbing corporate attention. It’s not the Google apps’ themselves, but the APIs to allow ISVs and other power software houses can use to write applications that extend or integrate with Google Apps. Whereas security was already …

It seems like the SaaS media relationships departments have been busy since last night. Microsoft and BT are talking about BT Application Marketplace, Salesforce is hinting about its 25,000 user customer and Google is in fanfarre-mode with Apps Premier …

Eweek reports about Microsoft’s architecture guidance on SaaS (Software as a Service). There is code, a video and a screencast released on MSDN which I highly recommend watching. Well done, Microsoft.…

As we discussed originally while looking at Web 2.0 software-as-a-service business models, we saw how hosted software is not a competitive offering for mid- to large companies over 500 employees. New research by Quocirca and Forrester now comes to …

There seems to be at least 17 startups taking on the A-Team of the desktop applications, and possibly another hundred thousand teenagers creating their own little Web 2.0 application-du-jour in communities like entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Andressen’s Ning.

Since …

The recent advent of Web 2.0 no-software start-ups like 37signals, salesforce.com, Writely, etc. is getting plenty of attention by the media and VCs alike, but I have not seem much about the pricing model of these no-software …