" Open Source + Shared/Managed Servers = the new SaaS Paradigm?“Open Source” and “Software as a Service” (SaaS) are big buzzwords these days. And rightfully so. Both are viable approaches to mitigating the often high cost of software and infrastructure. However, to date these two approaches have largely existed separately. There are a few exceptions to this, such as SugarCRM who offers their software with both the ability to download the open source version or pay a small monthly hosting fee.
I won’t go into the advantages of either approach here as a simple Google search on either term yields more than enough information on the topics. I’ve also touched on some of them in a previous post.
However, recently when I was looking at how to set-up a website, email and blog for my wife’s business, I stumbled across a plethora of new options that simply didn’t exist a couple years ago when we set-up Latigent.
With a little research I figured out that the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Joomla would be the easiest way to get something up and running. The software was free and the options for plugins was mind numbing (similar to my theory on salesforce.com’s success).
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Read it all : http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2007/02/09/open-source-sharedmanaged-servers-the-new-saas-paradigm/
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