Shortly after posting eVapt’s profile, I ran into this article.
Basically it’s an article explaining how Micro ISVs can survive the SaaS game. Essentially Gord from ElastX argues that the biggest problem for Micro ISVs is the subscription model. In particular, the subscription model requires users to be committed before using the software. This means [...]

Oracle, founder & CEO Larry Ellison believes SaaS is not profitable enough. Here’s some excerpts from an article I read:
“We continue to get better at it and grow the (on-demand) business,” he said in an earnings call yesterday. “[But] it’s not really growing any faster than our overall business.”
“If you look at the leader, Salesforce.com, [...]

Vancouver based Peer 1 is hosting a free webinar with partners OnDemand Solutions and Mural Ventures. 3 speakers from each of these companies will share their experiences on how to build successful and profitable SaaS applications.
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And here is some additional information taken directly from Peer 1’s blog.

Phil Wainewright started an excellent discussion about the different variations of multi-tenant applications. He identifies different multi-tenant architectures implemented by leading SaaS vendors. For example Salesforce.com, Intacct and Oracle all claim to host multi-tenant applications; but the architecture of each system varies greatly.
For example, Salesforce.com is the purest multi-tenant application. Each component [...]

There’s a good post on GigaOM talking about the true definition of SaaS. Alistair points out:
“Everyone’s on the software-as-a-service bandwagon … But not every company that calls itself SaaS deserves the title.
One branch of the on-demand evolutionary tree is what I’d call (at the risk of yet another unfortunate acronym) peripheral-as-a-service. As we move from [...]

Gordon Ritter is one of the founders of Emergence Capital Partners and an early investor in Salesforce. He talks about what he thinks the future of SaaS will look like. He thinks the real value for SaaS is the data that is being harnessed about the users. Because SaaS companies are hosting the application, they [...]

As we know, the traditional on premise software giants like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP are now stepping up with hosted versions of their application. This allows customers to choose a flavour that they prefer. For example, let’s look at Microsoft Dynamics CRM. If a customer prefers to kick it old school they can buy [...]