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SaaS/DaaS: Data Sources Powering Mashups

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS (Software as a Service) are hosted on-demand browser-based applications.  Parallel to SaaS is something I’m calling DaaS (Data as a Service), a trend that is rapidly evolving.  DaaS combines elements of SaaS and SOA and it is the force…

Sun Turnaround == Sun 2.0?

By Dick Weisinger

Employees at Sun are feeling good again.  “Inside the company, the energy level is dramatically different.” said Sun CFO Mike Lehman.  The turnaround is coming after five years of poor to mediocre fiscal performance at Sun. Sun’s financials from last…

SaaS: More Numbers Pointing Towards Growth

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS continues to grow rapidly.  ACA Research’s recent study (sponsored by Salesforce.com) estimates that the SaaS market will double in 2007.  Problems that could delay adoption cited in the survey include security, bandwidth, and loss of control of data.  But many…

Security: OpenID Gains Momentum with Endorsements

By Dick Weisinger

  OpenID has been in the news over the last month with endorsements coming from Digg, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL.  OpenID is a decentralized system for maintaining a consistent online identity. Using OpenID, people are identified using a URI or URL, much the same way…