September 2008 Archives

Oracle has been having its annual OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco this week, and naturally it's been a big week for Oracle announcements. Enterprise 2.0 and cloud computing seem to be big themes in Oracle's announcements this year. And according... Read More..

After the recent TechCrunch 50 Conference, an event produced by TechCrunch.com to showcase new Web 2.0 startups, many people were less than thrilled by the finalists that were the so-called 50 most promising startups, especially Yammer.com as the winner of... Read More..

We have published an interesting article today on considerations that companies should look at before deploying a SaaS solution. In it, Joe Ruck of BoardVantage writes about the role of how to evaluate vendors' service level agreements, escrow accounts, business... Read More..

I have seen a lot of articles in the IT press about surveys finding that certain groups are doubting the importance of Web 2.0 technology. The articles usually give the results of some survey showing that business managers, or employees... Read More..

After Google launched its new browser / cloud computing "operating system" earlier this week, plenty of people have had plenty to say about it -- with most of the reactions being positive. Joe McKendrick of ZDNet notes that Chrome could... Read More..

Google has certainly be in the forefront of the cloud computing media this week, launching two new offerings that have the potential to be formidable (depending on whom you talk to, of course.) The first is called Google Video, an... Read More..

So I'll admit right away that my understanding of the SaaS market is that of a journalist and not of an IT analyst, so I could be missing something here, but this morning I've been reading a lot of discussion... Read More..