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SaaSGrid Express: Irresponsible or Indispensable? - Phil Wainewright, ZDNET "Apprenda is helping to achieve two useful results by seeding the market with its free download. First of all, it brings more ISVs into the SaaS ambit, and that’s got to be good for the industry as a whole. Secondly, it allows for more experimentation by testing many different combinations of hosting infrastructure...

SaaSGrid Express: Expressway to get there - Subraya Mallya, PrudentCloud "Apprenda, the leading Software-as-a-Service platform for building .NET based SaaS applications, announced the release of their free community edition SaaSGrid Express yesterday. I think this is the first of its kind where a company is releasing a complete SaaS platform that ISVs can download and start building their SaaS...

With eye on cloud standard, Apprenda offers free downloadable version of SaaS application server - Dana Gardner, ZDNET "Apprenda, a software as a service (SaaS) middleware provider, is now offering a free downloadable SaaS stack that provides much of the functionality of its flagship SaaSGrid, an application server for on-demand apps. The Clifton Park, NY company says that SaaSGrid Express, announced...

"The growth of the cloud community and the appetite for cloud-based software options over the past few years has been remarkable, although not unexpected. The SaaS model offers two distinct competitive advantages for software developers — massive economies of scale and sustainable profit streams –- over the traditional model. Yet astoundingly, many firms take the plunge into providing...

"The age-old dilemma of form versus function is often settled by budget. When it comes to building Web applications, most enterprises will fret about making sure its software is functional and up to spec quite a bit more than it will about the user experience. In the .NET world, Silverlight can add a very rich experience to an application’s front end. But reconciling a Silverlight front...

"SaaS delivery has lots of challenges -- scale-out, multi-tenancy (how to allow many customers to efficiently and safely share the same, single application footprint so that my COGS and incremental delivery costs are a few pennies on the dollar rather than a few dimes on the dollar), commercialization (charging for a service and tracking access and usage rights based on payment) and operational...

Phil Wainewright from The Connected Web interviews Rick Nucci, CTO of SaaS integration vendor Boomi. " SuccessFactors recently gave a speech, [by CEO] Lars [Dalgaard], talking about their architecture and their approach. They have something like over a thousand customers per physical server when you net it all out and aggregate it. And that 's the marginal utility, that's the scale that...

How Cloud Computing will Drive SaaS in 2010 "When we think about software-as-a-service (SaaS), we tend to envision large-scale services such as Salesforce.com. After all, the conventional wisdom is that for providers to make money, they need scale. But much of that conventional wisdom will be turned on its head in 2010. More targeted SaaS application environments will evolve with the availability...

Startup Apprenda Brings Silverlight to Large-Scale Business Apps "Chances are you’ve never heard of upstate New York startup Apprenda and their product, SaaSGrid. The company’s clients aren’t home consumers, they’re other IT companies like UVision Consulting and Serenity Software that build large-scale business apps. But a couple of weeks ago, Apprenda landed a $5M investment...

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