Denis’ Blog

I will give a presentation June, 12th, on Saas, on demand and open source at SIgestion 2008, a big trade show dedicated to Business & IT. Feel free to join, Saas & Open Source, that’s pretty hot topics nowadays. BTW, thanks to some of my readers for the opportunity .

Google today announced the beta (for 10.000 users) of their hosting services. If you are one of the happy few (for now), you can host you Python application for…well..nothing… You can store your data through a Python API . You have 500MB of disk storage, 10GB incoming /10 Gb outgoing bandwidth per day, 200 million megacycles of CPU per day and 2,000 emails per day. Ouch. That’s pretty cool.

Ok. You will argue that your are not using Python. First answer: maybe you should :-). Another one is: Google will support other platforms.

The service is less sexy that Amazon EC2 that provides a real virtualization platform. But Google is adding another brick in the SaaS/on demand space. Pretty exciting.

Intalio, Inc. just announced a BPM as a Service offering.   The subscription for the service starts at $1,500 for each dedicated server, and includes bandwidth, licenses, maintenance, and support. Users can receive a free 5-day evaluation. The beast is run on top of Amazon EC2.

Yet another example that all the IS components will be provided  on-demand. Of course SLA and security are not fully OK, but this is just a question of time. And quarters, not years.

A full redefition of software vendors and IT integrators business models  is underway. really, really exciting…