What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS)

Posted by seshagiri on Saturday April 05, 2008 @11:43AM
from the self-post dept.

Kindly suggest a good book on the SaaS subject - something that has good notes on the basics.

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Re:What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS) by rantfoil on Saturday April 05, 2008 @02:25PM (#155715)

Software as a Service is just a buzzword.

Software used to be something you buy for a lot of money in a physical package.

Software as a Service is sold by license for less money over a specific period of time and used over the web.

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Re:What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS) by seshagiri on Sunday April 06, 2008 @01:58AM (#156034)

So does a free email service like Gmail qualify as SaaS?

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Re:What is the best book on "Software as a Service (SaaS) by rantfoil on Sunday April 06, 2008 @03:40AM (#156072)

Certainly, but nobody really uses the term for such services. Salesforce.com likes to call itself SaaS because it distinguishes itself from Siebel, Oracle, and other big enterprise software co's that sell similar services using the old product model.

But it doesn't really mean much outside of the enterprise space. The whole web is SaaS. =)

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