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by Scott Wilson on March 10, 2010
Google rolled out their Apps Marketplace yesterday at their Campfire One developer conference, unveiling an unexpectedly powerful way to leverage the Apps platform for other applications.
The Marke...
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by Scott Wilson on March 8, 2010
Google acquired document collaboration company Docverse last week, a move designed to shore up the capabilities of Google Apps to interoperate with desktop-created Microsoft Office documents. Such cap...
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by Scott Wilson on December 2, 2009
I mentioned recently in my posts on Google's new Chromium operating system project that while the idea of a lightweight, secure, powerful web-oriented operating system may be theirs at the moment, t...
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by Scott Wilson on October 28, 2009
I've been watching with some interest the debate going on, and the various manueverings of the interested parties, over the City of Los Angeles selection of a replacement for their antiquated Notes e-...
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by Scott Wilson on October 6, 2009
IBM's announcement today of their Lotus Live iNotes hosted e-mail service (like just about everyone else, they're calling it a "cloud" service; it's not, at least not in any mean...
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by Scott Wilson on September 10, 2009
TechFlash links to an analysis from the City of Los Angeles' Information Technology Agency (ITA) detailing (and in tone defending) the city's interest in transitioning a large portion of its I...
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by Scott Wilson on July 1, 2009
A single line in reports on a Tuesday conference call with Cisco VP Doug Dennerline opens up the intriguing possibility that the company is "thinking about" getting into the online office po...
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by Scott Wilson on June 17, 2009
Following Google's recent claims of increasing Apps adoption among enterprise customers, CIO Magazine has a snapshot of one company's transition to the platform as a frame for an article calle...
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by Scott Wilson on June 5, 2009
In the face of recent assertions that "the Cloud isn't enterprise-ready" or "cloud adoption is more theoretical than real right now" it turns out that the people who actually h...
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by Scott Wilson on May 17, 2009
Today's complimentary "[SAAS_PROVIDER_OUTAGE] Shows Cloud Not Ready For Enterprise" story brought to you by eWeek: "Google Outage Shows the Cloud May Not Be Enterprise-Ready."
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by Scott Wilson on May 4, 2009
The situational application community is not really on the radar of most CIOs with whom I am acquainted, which is a bit like saying that in 2000, the agile development community was not on their radar...
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by Scott Wilson on March 2, 2009
One of my favorite SMB/SME IT operations and support management suites has made the leap to SaaS land: ManageEngine by Adventnet (better known in most circles for their Zoho SaaS platform) is now part...
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by Scott Wilson on February 17, 2009
For a dim ray of sunshine in the middle of an otherwise gloomy day (gloomy, at least, for anyone watching the markets) I refer you to a recent study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the S...
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by Scott Wilson on January 28, 2009
As other major vendors have started to come out with their own online office and collaboration suites, Google is going old-school and is taking its own, bit by bit, offline. Today, the Gmail team anno...
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by Scott Wilson on January 22, 2009
IBM has thrown its hat in the SaaS office collaboration suite ring this week with the announcement of the online version of Lotus Notes, Lotus Live (aside: why does that redirect to a secure channel e...
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by Scott Wilson on December 8, 2008
Google's quest to turn the web into the computer has taken another interesting turn today with this announcement from the company detailing a new technology they are calling "Native Client&qu...
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by Scott Wilson on December 3, 2008
Entellium has filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to keep operations running while company assets are sold off and customers... well, while something is done with customers; what exactly tha...
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by Scott Wilson on December 2, 2008
The quiet achiever of the SaaS world, Zoho, has announced a new service called CloudSQL offering direct ODBC/JDBC access to certain cloud-hosted data with common SQL syntax. The service will also be a...
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by Scott Wilson on November 17, 2008
Microsoft has announced today the general availability of their latest additions to their Online Services portfolio, hosted Exchange and Sharepoint services.
Exchange is the most significant componen...
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by Scott Wilson on November 4, 2008
While Microsoft and Amazon have been dominating the headlines of late when it comes to new cloud computing services, Salesforce.com is touting its existing accomplishments at this year's Dreamforc...
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by Scott Wilson on October 22, 2008
First, the title is probably more profound than the post that follows... sorry, I was just trying to sucker you in, I admit it. This is really just a quick link to some gossip without even any intelli...
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by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2008
So suggests Forrester, as reported by ReadWriteWeb, which has them suggesting that some Enterprise 2.0 web applications are in for a shake-up which may cause their pricing to fall over half the curren...
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by Scott Wilson on October 9, 2008
Last week when Entellium's CEO, Paul Johnston, and Senior VP Parrish Jones unexpectedly stepped down and the company subsequently began to lay off staff, many of us wondered (despite the inevitabl...
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by Scott Wilson on September 8, 2008
Last month I put up a post regarding the economics of the B2B SaaS market, responding primarily to an interesting post on Zoho's blog regarding the matter.
I have been entirely remiss in posting ...
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by Scott Wilson on August 28, 2008
The Google Apps Team has sent out an e-mail to customers promising a full SLA credit for Apps Premier customers for the month of August to cover for a series of outages on the 6th, 11th, and 15th. Mos...
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by Scott Wilson on August 19, 2008
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu posted an entry yesterday entitled "Why we compete with Google," going into some detail on the economics of the business software market in the process. It's worth...
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by Scott Wilson on July 31, 2008
Not Kel Hoffmann of Whitebirch Planning. The president of the 9 year old strategic financial planning software vendor, which offers both SaaS and stand-alone versions of its Whitebirch Planning produc...
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by Scott Wilson on June 21, 2008
Just a quick link; Michael Krigsman of the IT Project Failures blog has a post up now with some analysis of Google's AppEngine failure that occured last week.
Krigsman believes that the failure i...
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by Scott Wilson on June 18, 2008
Google's AppEngine cloud computing service joined the hallowed ranks of other burgeoning cloud service providers yesterday with its first widespread outage. Between 9AM and roughly 2PM Pacific, a ...
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by Scott Wilson on May 3, 2008
IBM yesterday announced its intention to develop and deploy a web-based application marketplace called the "Blue Business Platform" targeted primarily at the SMB market. The "Platform&q...
