Comments on: SaaS And Open Source: Grim Fates? http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/ What's Next In the IT Channel Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:54:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-107114 The VAR Guy Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:00:28 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-107114 SaaS Man: Most cloud start-ups aren't dead. The problem is everyone wants to be known as a cloud company. Cloud this, cloud that. Plenty are doing well. Scores aren't. Are most dead? Too soon to say. -TVG SaaS Man: Most cloud start-ups aren’t dead. The problem is everyone wants to be known as a cloud company. Cloud this, cloud that. Plenty are doing well. Scores aren’t. Are most dead? Too soon to say.
-TVG

]]> By: saas man http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-107111 saas man Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:45:49 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-107111 Trip is an absolute genius. He was dead right on this. If you look at cloud based startups - most of them are dead. Those big companies that survived however will make money. Trip is definitely taking a trip to hall of fame in my opinion. Trip is an absolute genius. He was dead right on this. If you look at cloud based startups – most of them are dead. Those big companies that survived however will make money.

Trip is definitely taking a trip to hall of fame in my opinion.

]]> By: Axel Schultze http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-84482 Axel Schultze Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:24:13 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-84482 Trip does what he has to do to stay alive. Fear, uncertainty and doubt is his business model. And not only he most of the "elderly" analysts follow that model. I heard this when the PC came to market, when the Internet came to market now SaaS has grown to a 10 Billion $ Industry and 300 Million people use social media one way or the other. Give me a break who cares about those dinosaur predictions... Axel Schultze, Xeequa Trip does what he has to do to stay alive. Fear, uncertainty and doubt is his business model. And not only he most of the “elderly” analysts follow that model. I heard this when the PC came to market, when the Internet came to market now SaaS has grown to a 10 Billion $ Industry and 300 Million people use social media one way or the other. Give me a break who cares about those dinosaur predictions…
Axel Schultze, Xeequa

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-84160 The VAR Guy Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:32:12 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-84160 Michael: Thanks for the note. The VAR Guy thinks SaaS will suffer a bit of a slowdown because of that "deer in headlight" situation you mentioned. But as a small business owner himself, our resident blogger uses SaaS whenever possible... Michael: Thanks for the note. The VAR Guy thinks SaaS will suffer a bit of a slowdown because of that “deer in headlight” situation you mentioned. But as a small business owner himself, our resident blogger uses SaaS whenever possible…

]]> By: Michael Fauscette http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-84144 Michael Fauscette Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:59:06 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-84144 VAR Guy I agree with you completely, Trip is way off base. SaaS vendors are doing pretty good this year and their growth has accelerated over the last 9-10 months. The current financial crisis will accelerate that growth. This calendar quarter will be tought for most businesses simply due to the "deer in the headlights" effect of all the negitive press but that won't continue. While I think some on premise vendors may see a tough year next year (maybe 18-24 months) the SaaS vendors should fare well. Companies will not be that interested (or able) to expend lots of capital and will want to move expenses on new software purchases into operating expense, which of course bodes well for subscription based offerings. This past year SaaS has really moved into the mainstream and in fact upper mid market and enterprise purchases have outpaced small and medium businesses, this is a very strong indication and that trend should continue. Open Source Software, while still a small part of the market also has the potential to see accelerated growth this next year or two...in fact this could be the boost that OSS has been looking for. VAR Guy I agree with you completely, Trip is way off base. SaaS vendors are doing pretty good this year and their growth has accelerated over the last 9-10 months. The current financial crisis will accelerate that growth. This calendar quarter will be tought for most businesses simply due to the “deer in the headlights” effect of all the negitive press but that won’t continue. While I think some on premise vendors may see a tough year next year (maybe 18-24 months) the SaaS vendors should fare well. Companies will not be that interested (or able) to expend lots of capital and will want to move expenses on new software purchases into operating expense, which of course bodes well for subscription based offerings. This past year SaaS has really moved into the mainstream and in fact upper mid market and enterprise purchases have outpaced small and medium businesses, this is a very strong indication and that trend should continue. Open Source Software, while still a small part of the market also has the potential to see accelerated growth this next year or two…in fact this could be the boost that OSS has been looking for.

]]> By: Wayne Morris http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-84060 Wayne Morris Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:02:40 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-84060 I firmly believe that SaaS is THE future of software, and not just because it is very cost-effective, row risk and quick to deliver value. SaaS can provide capabilities that on-premise solutions can't as I outlined this in this post http://blogs.mydials.eastwick.com/?p=22. I firmly believe that SaaS is THE future of software, and not just because it is very cost-effective, row risk and quick to deliver value. SaaS can provide capabilities that on-premise solutions can’t as I outlined this in this post http://blogs.mydials.eastwick.com/?p=22.

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-83923 The VAR Guy Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:12:57 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-83923 CNet's open source blog -- Matt Asay's Open Road -- provides more proof that <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10094221-16.html?tag=mncol;title" rel="nofollow">many open source companies are doing very well</a>. CNet’s open source blog — Matt Asay’s Open Road — provides more proof that many open source companies are doing very well.

]]> By: Rich http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-83816 Rich Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:44:40 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/11/saas-and-open-source-grim-futures/#comment-83816 Trip is tripping. Let him continue to negotiate aggressive discounts on closed-source software. The rest of us will pay reasonable support fees for free and open source software. Trip is tripping. Let him continue to negotiate aggressive discounts on closed-source software. The rest of us will pay reasonable support fees for free and open source software.

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