Comments on: Could SaaS + PaaS Equal Cloud Computing Gold? http://research.gigaom.com/2010/04/why-saas-paas-could-equal-cloud-computing-gold/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:27:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Derrick Harris http://research.gigaom.com/2010/04/why-saas-paas-could-equal-cloud-computing-gold/#comment-908 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:25:57 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=31955#comment-908 Valid points, certainly. Of course, Microsoft didn’t do too poorly for itself in the desktop world. I think there is a large group of users for whom prepackaged apps would be a big draw to getting them on the cloud — cheap, fast and easy. And nothing done along these lines would necessarily have to affect open development efforts elsewhere, as we’re talking different offerings for different types of users.

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Not sure if I would call this app a SaaS app. Rather, it is a standalone app running on top of PaaS. ^^^By making the app run on top of Azure, Microsoft is taking the approach they had in the traditional desktop world (lack of portability). They may get some traction but I doubt such an approach will lead to big success.^^^ They also run a risk of turning off developers in Azure platform. Anyhow, I am just thinking out loud.

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