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Payroll by Ma Bell

AT&T bought USi in Oct. 2006. My friend Jack sent me an email from ATT Wholesale:With AT&T's Payroll Services, powered by USinternetworking (USi), an AT&T Company, your payroll management headaches are history! You still keep control with full access and...

Posted on August 13, 2008 12:16 PM

How Safe is the Cloud?

Network World has a story about how an online storage site, Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, shut down this week after 45% of the data was lost. Who's fault is it? Well, the article tries to figure that out.As we...

Posted on August 12, 2008 12:46 AM

Dvorak Likes Shrink Wrap

In a recent column in PC Mag, An Ode to Shrink Wrapped Software, John Dvorak talks about the ten weaknesses of online apps. It really comes down to this: "Using the Internet to return to the old model of mainframe...

Posted on July 14, 2008 3:14 PM

Are You Equipt?

Microsft launches Equipt: "The Microsoft Equipt bundle -- formerly code-named "Albany" -- includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, plus OneCare and a handful of existing free Windows Live applications." [AP] Microsoft has already entered the SAAS market space with Hosted...

Posted on July 2, 2008 10:24 PM

Why Hasn't SAAS Taken Off

Why North American Enterprises Aren’t Interested in SaaS (according to Networld World mag)According to a Forrester Research survey, these are the top 8 reasons why companies say “No Thanks” to SaaS.Percent Reason 66% Integration issues61% Total cost of ownership concerns55%...

Posted on June 13, 2008 3:39 PM

SAAS and Security

Here's the downside to SAAS: security breach and down time.This week Amazon was down twice, which is hard to believe because I can not remember them being unavailable. Yahoo Mail has had outages. Twitter is constantly down.Every data center, even...

Posted on June 9, 2008 7:35 PM

When to SAAS

On LinkedIn Answers, there is a question about when you would use SAAS in place of in-house apps. Bob Raffo points out some reality:Failure: CEO sees SaaS as a low cost replacement for in-house systems and as a path to...

Posted on June 9, 2008 12:04 PM

IP - no the other IP

My friend is kind of a patent attorney. He just got back from BarCamp Orlando (350 strong!). When he and I discuss Web 2.0, the one thing lacking is IP protection. Sure, everyone uses distributed computing in clouds and clusters,...

Posted on April 7, 2008 11:08 PM