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Why SaaS Has Better Functionality than Enterprise Software

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:45:00 EDT

Making software is easy. You just collect the market data, generate a high-level technical specification, build the product, and test it. All marketing needs to do is put together some screenshots and sales can just kick back and wait for the orders to start flooding in. Right? Unfortunately for software vendors, it doesn’t quite work that way. It takes a long time – years in fact – to get software right, and the problem starts from the very beginning – understanding the market.

The Future of Enterprise Software

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:00:00 EST

It's no secret that open source has turned into a market force, which is giving enterprise software some tough competition. The same can be said for SaaS businesses, which are steadily eating into the market share of the established on-premise players. While it could easily be assumed that ultimately SaaS and open source will battle each other for dominance of the software business, I don’t think that’s likely.

Open Source and Cloud Computing Take on Enterprise Software

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:50:00 EST

Enterprise software is under attack. Traditional infrastructure players like BEA are seeing their core products replaced with free open source projects, while traditional application vendors like Oracle/Siebel are being displaced by SaaS. But is this a slugfest with only one winner? Will SaaS and open source ultimately turn against each other for dominance of the software business model – WWF Smack Down style – where the once united tag team, after conquering their opponent, starts to fight between themselves?