The Laptop is the Security Hole

A pilot’s laptop, filled with top secret security information was reported missing at Dulles Airport and the ripple effects were felt across the country.

[From Pilot’s Missing Laptop Causes Airport Security Scare|ABC 7 News]

And critics talk about security concerns with hosted applications…

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Amazon World Domination Can Now Begin

AWS filled a major gap in their offering with the addition of SimpleDB. Two things jumped out at me, the first being that it’s optimized for very large datasets and the second, more important as well, observation is that it’s designed around search indexes instead of schemas.

There’s a lot more to be said about SimpleDB, […]

Did CrispyNews Get Acquired By Salesforce.com?

Crispynews is a great “create your own Digg” service that I tried to use for the Irregulars a while back. I gave it up because I just didn’t get enough traffic to make it work like I wanted (you need a lot of visitors and contributors to make these things work) but I still love […]

The Pull Factor in SaaS

My good friend Charles Zedlewski put together a great analysis of SG&A costs at the four major SaaS business application companies that are either public or have filed to go public. 

"The true factor driving SG&A for these SaaS companies is growth, not scale. This is logically consistent as the economics [...]

What is NetSuite Worth?

I can’t answer that question but my good friend Jason just posted a detailed review of the S-1 and while he didn’t address the question of what the company is worth, the details he pulled out of the filing make for interesting reading.

Tags: NetSuite

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Salesforce.com Acquires Koral

Salesforce.com acquired Koral last month and is launching a new business around content management. This acquisition makes a lot of sense and it is a good fit because not only does it plug-and-play already as an Appexchange offering, but given their market focus it’s a no-brainer in terms of build-out. I am curious to see […]

Cloud 9 Analytics

I think we’re gonna see a flood of these companies, and it goes without saying that not that all of them will succeed, but I think this could be an interesting one to watch. Cloud 9 Analytics is apparently is the rebirth of Certive, which should squash any critics who would suggest that a startup […]

Vista marks end of an era for Microsoft

Waters is right to point to the sea shift that is underway at these large software technology companies, a shift away from big traumatic software upgrades to more frequent component bumps. The points that are often missed in these debates is that the focus on the customer obscures the fact that the companies themselves don’t […]

Regressive Complexity in SaaS Pricing

Props to Jason for coining a very cool new term - regressive complexity. He is absolutely correct, SaaS pricing is getting too complex which means the title of his post could easily have been “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. SaaS’ early popularity was a function of 1) it’s dramatically lower […]

When On Demand Isn’t

We’ve been having a spirited discussion among several of the Irregulars the last couple of days about the wisdom of running a business system on Google’s at your domain apps. Charlie Wood and myself have been particularly outspoken about the benefits, unfortunately for us Google is not helping our case today…. Calendar has been down […]

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