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All the SaaS news and breakthroughs in you used to find in SaaS Week  is now being covered by ebizQ's Phil Wainewright, a leading authority  on emerging trends in business automation, which you can find at The Connected Web. SaaSWeek... Read More..

On November 15, IBM announced a plan it calls "Blue Cloud" for enabling corporate data centers to "operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed, globally accessible fabric of resources, rather than on local machines or remote... Read More..

Media outlet VNUnet discusses a new Gartner report that predicts that dynamics of the software licensing market will soon begin to hurt the profits of software vendors. SaaS-based applications are getting more and more sophisticated, and with the lower cost... Read More..

The Free Software Foundation has approved the Affero GPL for Software as a Service applications, reports E Commerce News. The new GPL is based on the GNU GPLv3 but includes terms to let users access source code for software accessed... Read More..

In the latest of a string of SaaS acquisitions, Dell has signed an agreement to buy Everdream, a SaaS remote service management provider. eWeek reports that Dell looked at the deal in order to complement the capabilities it acquired when... Read More..

After acquiring successful on-demand security provider Postini, everyone’s favorite search engine turned SaaS leader, a.k.a. Google, quickly integrated Postini functionality into its Google Apps Premier Edition offering (read the press release here), which is quickly shaping up to be a... Read More..

With the exception of Oracle, and perhaps Microsoft, it seems the large software companies out there are buying into SaaS -- literally. This week, EMC confirmed rumors that it would buy Berkeley Data Systems -- maker of Mozy, an online... Read More..

In responding to Microsoft's announcements earlier this week, numerous sources around the Web have some things to say. Sean Gallagher of InfoWorld wondered whether Microsoft could manage IT online. He pointed out that SaaS is well proven by Salesforce.com and... Read More..

I remember an old Dilbert comic strip in which Dogbert was using his newfound wealth to become a venture capitalist. Of course, his prospect's great idea turned out to be developing a new word processor for Windows, so Dogbert used... Read More..

Since Yahoo! announced its intentions to buy Zimbra, a company that offers a messaging and collaboration suite via SaaS, PC World reports that Zimbra users are largely grumpy about the news. Citing a discussion thread on Zimbra's website about the... Read More..