I'm hip-deep in shit, and the field of software distribution and config management.
OK, what I mean is, for the last six years or so I've done configuration management which is basically software as a service to the desktop. Mass distribution. Self-healing and the like. It's sort of like SMS, except it works.
A large computer vendor who used to be synonymous with calculators bought the company we used for this a couple years back and have started to fold it into their all-encompassing octopodal strategy of being every thing to every-damn-body. It slices, dices, inventories, and smashes watermelons.
If my co. started trying to farm out software services they'd run a company like salesforce ragged in about ten minutes. We have so many specialized requirements that we've got a 12-person department whose full-time job it is to keep up with them. For that kind of stuff, you have to be in the house.
So I completely see where that article is coming from. I go to these conventions and huge companies talk about it, and they sure don't mention SaaS. Software as a service is too generalized. All you can really get are some big-bucket apps, things like word processors and spreadsheets. Anything with customization or sensitive data is right out. Imagine the internal overhead for having to figure out how a custom app for one customer works, getting it documented, and tasking someone to support it, along with hundreds of other custom apps. It would destroy your business model.
Like every other "killer" idea, SaaS will take its place as a widget in the toolbox alongside a bunch of other ideas that turned out to be applicable to a small set of solutions. A few buzzwords later and we'll all be listening to how the next killer app will totally revolutionize the business.
Whoa. I've been repeatedly told that because my vision is -9 in my right eye (my prescription looks about like yours did) I am not eligible. How long ago did you have that done?
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OK, what I mean is, for the last six years or so I've done configuration management which is basically software as a service to the desktop. Mass distribution. Self-healing and the like. It's sort of like SMS, except it works.
A large computer vendor who used to be synonymous with calculators bought the company we used for this a couple years back and have started to fold it into their all-encompassing octopodal strategy of being every thing to every-damn-body. It slices, dices, inventories, and smashes watermelons.
If my co. started trying to farm out software services they'd run a company like salesforce ragged in about ten minutes. We have so many specialized requirements that we've got a 12-person department whose full-time job it is to keep up with them. For that kind of stuff, you have to be in the house.
So I completely see where that article is coming from. I go to these conventions and huge companies talk about it, and they sure don't mention SaaS. Software as a service is too generalized. All you can really get are some big-bucket apps, things like word processors and spreadsheets. Anything with customization or sensitive data is right out. Imagine the internal overhead for having to figure out how a custom app for one customer works, getting it documented, and tasking someone to support it, along with hundreds of other custom apps. It would destroy your business model.
Like every other "killer" idea, SaaS will take its place as a widget in the toolbox alongside a bunch of other ideas that turned out to be applicable to a small set of solutions. A few buzzwords later and we'll all be listening to how the next killer app will totally revolutionize the business.
Whoa. I've been repeatedly told that because my vision is -9 in my right eye (my prescription looks about like yours did) I am not eligible. How long ago did you have that done?