Ben Kepes penned a nice summary of the Office 2.0 conference and one complaint I liked is that the session on going 100% SaaS still focused a bit too much on justifying “why SaaS”.  This has been nagging at me as well lately - all the chatter about whether or not 100% SaaS makes sense, and whether or not there are 7 myths about SaaS, etc.

The Vision Thing

All the time spent debating positions which are already clear does take time away from the “vision thing”.  In fact I suppose we are in a bit of our own “silly season” in this debate about how to provision IT!  So here is the vision in my view: we are now in a position to run a reasonably sized business in many industries without building a data center and without traditional “outsourcing” of IT for that business. (more…)

 

I talked to Chris Lynch yesterday from CIO Magazine about our 100% SaaS and Open Source strategy for sourcing IT solutions at Ingres. The article Chris posted is titled: The Benefits of the All-SaaS Shop: Money, Application Integration, and Did We Mention Money? Thanks to Chris the quotes are accurate and I appreciate the time to discuss our strategy. The “money” headline focuses quite a bit on the savings inherit in the SaaS model, and probably my only additional comment would be that what we really look for is cost effective, variable based pricing for our solutions rather than something cheap. Semantics yes, but a distinction. Thanks Chris - glad you are “on the bus”!