Comments on: HP Microsoft Announcement on Cloud Computing – Do You Believe? http://www.interwest.com/software-as-a-service/saas/hp-microsoft-announcement-on-cloud-computing-do-you-believe/ and all things software Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:42:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Subraya Mallya http://www.interwest.com/software-as-a-service/saas/hp-microsoft-announcement-on-cloud-computing-do-you-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-499 Subraya Mallya Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:22:09 +0000 http://www.interwest.com/software-as-a-service/?p=406#comment-499 Bruce I agree with your observation and diagnosis of "antibodies" in large organizations. I think some of this are the very reason why SAP and Oracle have not been able to make a major dent in the SaaS market. The fact that these major shifts (SaaS and Cloud Computing in general)are not purely a technology or architecture based shift is causing all the issues. Back when internet came or client server came it was more of a technology or architecture shift and they could just reface the solutions they had. This time it is more like changing a religion. The big companies are struggling to come up terms with a model that creates risk to the cash cow (maintenance revenues) and still hesitating to make the necessary R&D investment to make the real shift. I am just about completing a post on the topic "Move to SaaS" where incumbents claim they are there or making a move and the challenges involved. Bruce
I agree with your observation and diagnosis of “antibodies” in large organizations. I think some of this are the very reason why SAP and Oracle have not been able to make a major dent in the SaaS market. The fact that these major shifts (SaaS and Cloud Computing in general)are not purely a technology or architecture based shift is causing all the issues. Back when internet came or client server came it was more of a technology or architecture shift and they could just reface the solutions they had. This time it is more like changing a religion. The big companies are struggling to come up terms with a model that creates risk to the cash cow (maintenance revenues) and still hesitating to make the necessary R&D investment to make the real shift.

I am just about completing a post on the topic “Move to SaaS” where incumbents claim they are there or making a move and the challenges involved.

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