Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Salesforce.com blasts Microsoft SaaS plans - Computer Business Review
Salesforce.com blasts Microsoft SaaS plans - Computer Business Review: "'The world has changed. Everyone and everything is becoming a service,' said Benioff. 'It was not so long ago that most executives and companies disregarded the movement to software as service, claiming it was limited technically, or isolated to a specific market segment such as small business. Now, everyone agrees that the future of software is not software at all, but rather an industry dominated by tens of thousands of heterogeneous services delivering everything from traditional Office productivity to verticals to VoIP to ERP and CRM systems. All companies and executives now agree: no software application will remain standing at the end of this widespread transformation.'
The SaaS reality is that the transformation is not as advanced as Benioff makes out. With the exception of NetSuite, hosted ERP has not been widely adopted and productivity application services are emergent rather than established. Vendors such as Microsoft and SAP also see SaaS as an option rather than the sole solution. Microsoft describes its position as providing software and software services."
The SaaS reality is that the transformation is not as advanced as Benioff makes out. With the exception of NetSuite, hosted ERP has not been widely adopted and productivity application services are emergent rather than established. Vendors such as Microsoft and SAP also see SaaS as an option rather than the sole solution. Microsoft describes its position as providing software and software services."
