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Web 2.0 + SaaS: Software Development and Deployment as a Service (SDDS)

By Dick Weisinger

Bungee Labs unveiled the Bungee Connect on-demand development environment at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in mid-April.  The new platform targets small and medium sized businesses, allowing them to quickly create highly-scalable Web 2.0 applications based on APIs from

Web 2.0: SaaS Limited by Lack of Offline access

By Dick Weisinger

AJAX, Flash, Laszlo and FLEX2 are browser-upgrade technologies that have seen huge uptake over the last few years, with AJAX grabbing most of the attention.  All of these technologies have moved the web browser several notches closer towards the rich and responsive

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

Innovation: The High Performance Workplace

By Dick Weisinger

For some time Gartner has hosted a blog called the High Performance Workplace.  Gartner has a vision of the worker of the future: workers who are highly collaborative, creative and innovative.  Using todays’ buzz-word terminology, maybe ‘Worker 2.0’ is the term.  The

Open Source/SaaS: Software Delivery Models 2.0

By Dick Weisinger

Last week Ray Lane, former Oracle President and now Open-Source proponent at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, eulogized the shrink-wrap box delivery model.  Lane said that the software business is at a “crossroads, with an economic model no longer sustainable”. Lane is