Just because it’s SaaS doesn’t make it good...

Interesting article in "The Register" that does a practical reality check that relativates the sometimes religious beliefs that "if it SaaS then it must be Good" versus on "if it on premise software then is must be Evil"...

Some paragraph are copied below, they sum it up pretty well...

"...The prevailing view among SaaS evangelists seems to be that if it’s hosted and charged for on a price per user per month basis, or better still free, then it must be good. This is a religious standpoint that is no more useful or valid than oft-heard claims that open source software is universally better than the commercial equivalent. At the end of the day, it is fitness for purpose and the balance between cost, risk and value that matters for mainstream business use, and there is good and bad in all camps. .."

“... To net all this out, the trick is not to get sucked into all of the hype. In one form or another, software functionality delivered over the wire as a service will find its way into most businesses over time, but SaaS is not in itself some kind of magic bullet. It’s simply another option for potentially meeting business requirements that is appropriate in some cases, but not in others...”

"...The future lies in open software architectures that can operate effectively across company boundaries, which is basically a fancy way of saying that we are heading towards a world in which it will be easy to plug external services into internal systems to achieve the optimum mix for the particular requirement at hand. That’s why I like companies offering services that complement on-premise solutions..."

This is pretty much the "Software + Services" message that Microsoft is expressing about this area since a while now.  It seems that there is more an more consensus about that vision in the industry.

Read the full article here

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