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SaaS vs The Perpetual License Model
Founded in 1998, VMware went public on August 14, 2007. Founded a year after VMware in 1999, Salesforce.com held its initial public offering three years earlier on June 23, 2004. From a temporal...
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What’s in Store for 2015: A Few Predictions
If it seems odd to be posting predictions for the forthcoming year almost three months in, that’s because it is. In my defense, however, the 2015 iteration of this exercise comes little more than ten...
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Open Source and the Rise of as-a-Service Businesses
As discussed in my recap of the 2014 predictions from this space, it has been interesting to see Oracle’s SEC filings reflect the structural changes to both its business and the industry as a whole....
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The SaaS Transition
One of the most common misinterpretations of the Software Paradox to date has been the assertion that traditional software license models are a binary, on or off switch. Many who read the book, or at...
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What SaaS Companies Forget to Talk About
In the beginning, the problem facing Software-as-a-Service offerings was that they weren’t software. At least not in the traditional, on-premise sense that customers were accustomed to. To compete,...
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What’s in Store for 2016: A Few Predictions
Every so often, it’s worth taking a step back to survey the wider technical landscape. As analysts, we spend the majority of our time a few levels up from practitioners in an attempt to gain a certain...
View ArticleSomeone Else’s Problem
Ok I think we need to talk seriously about this serverless trend, there is still a server, just it's someone else's problem — jessie frazelle (@frazelledazzell) March 11, 2016 The above statement is...
View ArticleHark Episode 2, “The Software Paradox”: Guest, Kent Beck
As newsletter subscribers are aware, Episode 2 of my new podcast Hark, “The Software Paradox,” dropped last week. In this month’s episode, Kent Beck – yes, that Kent Beck – dropped by to discuss The...
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How to Compete With the Cloud
While it was once a controversial statement, more and more software projects are acknowledging that their primary competition is not another software project, but cloud platforms offering similar...
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The Developer Experience Gap
When the iPhone was first introduced in January of 2007, it took the world by storm. The first device to compress – successfully, at least – a mobile phone, a computer with internet access and the 21...
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