TechCrunchIT has a great interview with Marc Benioff – CEO of Salesforce – Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center.
With Google AppEngine, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce and others enabling infrastructure as a service, the barriers to setting up your business on the web are now dependent on the business idea and application. No need to worry about server installation, scalability issues or authentication since these are now handled by the services.
What follows is a breakdown of the various acronyms and links to other articles.
SaaS – Software as a service.
PaaS – Platform as a service.
An outlook of what is to come for IT is available at SiliconRepublic.com
IT world’s ‘next big thing’ will be a slow, steady burner
