Reverend Ted, sing it again…
June 26, 2008
Reverend Ted, who posts over at his Open Source Advocacy blog has a few interesting things to say about Saas, and more imporantly, Salesforce’s position in that new market… most importantly how it appears to him and I agree, that Salesforce (more specifically the Force.com platform) is moving to position itself as the SaaS Microsoft.
Any new company entering the field of Saas will have to outmaneover them to get the edge.
Hmmm…
Have a read and tell me what you think!
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…and to make sure the point is clear: Salesforce.com can be outmaneuvered. The entrepreneur now has three options: pay more in labor (but remain self-reliant) by cobbling together your own IT infrastructure from either commercial or open source software, go with Force.com (and feed what could possibly become the beast of SaaS), or use an alternative platform-as-a-service offering that provides business advantage and seems less likely to become the next industry Sauron.
Meanwhile, over in Three-dimensional Chess…
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