What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Post by seshagiri » Sat, Apr 05, 2008, 3:43 PM UTC

Kindly suggest a good book on the SaaS subject - something that has good notes on the basics.

Re: What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Post by rantfoil » Sat, Apr 05, 2008, 6:25 PM UTC

Software as a Service is just a buzzword.

Software used to be something you buy for a lot of money in a physical package.

Software as a Service is sold by license for less money over a specific period of time and used over the web.

Re: What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Post by seshagiri » Sun, Apr 06, 2008, 5:58 AM UTC

rantfoil wrote: post #2

Software as a Service is just a buzzword. Software used to be something you buy for a lot of money in a physical package. Software as a Service is sold by license for less money over a specific period of time and used over the web.

So does a free email service like Gmail qualify as SaaS?

Re: What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Post by rantfoil » Sun, Apr 06, 2008, 7:40 AM UTC

seshagiri wrote: post #3

rantfoil wrote: post #2

Software as a Service is just a buzzword. Software used to be something you buy for a lot of money in a physical package. Software as a Service is sold by license for less money over a specific period of time and used over the web.

So does a free email service like Gmail qualify as SaaS?

Certainly, but nobody really uses the term for such services. Salesforce.com likes to call itself SaaS because it distinguishes itself from Siebel, Oracle, and other big enterprise software co's that sell similar services using the old product model.

But it doesn't really mean much outside of the enterprise space. The whole web is SaaS. =)