Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson
These shows, usually between 45-60 minutes in length, seem to just fly by without being able to get too in depth with any given topic. As such, we hope you find the show notes handy as you explore on your own.
Mentioned in this weeks show are:
+ Lawson’s Harry Debes: SaaS Industry Will Collapse in Two Years
+ Ellison: No Money In SaaS – Google Is The Risk
+ Go2Web20.net: a site directory for viewing Web 2.0 offerings
+ Mostly Trivial with Johnee Bee (and our recent post)
+ Next Minnedemo being planned…stay tuned
+ Next Twin Cities Social Media Breakfast about to be announced
+ What do YOU want to see Minnov8 turn in to as a community site better able to serve your needs? Let us know by sending us a note here.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:40 — 42.7MB)
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Five years ago there were a handful of SaaS companies and today there are over 1000. I met dozens of these companies at HostingCon this year. They are growing quickly and consuming resources from PaaS firms like Amazon and Softlayer at a rapid pace. SaaS is going to be adopted by SMB much faster than the enterprise so Lawson doesn’t have to fret too much. Microsoft has been telling anyone who is willing to listen about their software+services strategy (aka SaaS).
Cloud computing on the other hand = hype machine in overdrive. We are 5-10 years away from any true cloud computing architecture. The challenge is that it will require all new software. Thanks for the great podcast guys!