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 and SaaS platform. Some of those experiments will fail, with unfortunate consequences for their operators and customers. But that’s the nature of evolution. Darwinian trial and error will ultimately allow for faster development of better SaaS and PaaS options than were possible when just a few mega-providers were competing for custom." (READ MORE)