I’ve just come across this blog at CIO Weblog, and the entries related to SaaS, which are very well done. A question posted recently there is whether or not the new wave of SaaS vendors can overtake the legacy providers. My views on this have been shared - business application software is going to be delivered as a service or be left in the dust. Legacy providers such as Oracle have found it very difficult to properly move into a valid SaaS offering. Oracle has been working on this for years, beginning with Oracle BOL, OnLine, etc. The problem is, these are not true SaaS, multi-tenant offerings, designed from the start with the properties of the consumer web in mind. The new SaaS players coincidentally have newer software (!) which has been designed as multi-tenant architecture that can take full advantage of what the web based SaaS model offers. Their challenge is in fact to take that advantage while it exists and become the new standard.

On the music front, and speaking of newer players, last week I took my son to see Linkin Park and others on their Projeckt Revolution tour. I had not been a fan but this was an amazing performance approaching the likes of Radiohead and Muse. It was easy getting past the shredder vocals given that practically the entire audience was singing along. At the end of the show I thanked the group behind me for teaching me the lyrics!