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2 articles tagged ‘Sun’

Cloud scalability: Sleight of hand

The cloud’s big but it’s not infinite, and that’s OK

PaaS survey results part 2

In part one of this article I introduced Phil Wainewright’s five layer PaaS model. Phil asked readers to say which layer they would prefer to use for building a SaaS application. Readers had cast 173 votes by May 15th.

In part two I looked at layer one: do-it-yourself and layer two: managed-hosting. Neither is suitable for SaaS ISVs. In part three I move up to PaaS layer three: cloud computing. Might this be more suitable for ISVs building SaaS solutions?

Cloud computing was the most popular choice of Phil’s readers. 27% said they would prefer it to develop a SaaS application. I wonder how many of them realise that cloud computing, just like banking, relies on a simple confidence trick…

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Managed hosting: Try getting real

Can you operate 16 times more efficiently than your customers?

PaaS survey results part 1

In part one of this article I introduced Phil Wainewright’s five layer PaaS model.

Phil asked readers to say which layer they would prefer to use for building a SaaS application. Readers had cast 173 votes by May 15th.

Let’s work though these results and see what they mean for ISVs moving to SaaS.

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