Today was CloudForce in London – SalesForce.com’s big event, which is touring the world, and touted as “your chance to get the insight you need to take advantage of cloud computing and salesforce.com applications in 2009.” And that’s probably where the problem starts. There wasn’t much cloud on show, at least not cloud computing as I [...]

I don’t often put a “?” and a “!” in a post title, but today deserves it, mostly because of this post on WebGuild. I like the thinking (shown in a nice diagram) that makes a continuum from on premise to SaaS (Software as a service, not a misspelling of the airline). Licensing runs from traditional perpetual [...]