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Open Source As A SaaS Endgame Debate

December 18, 2009 By 6 Comments

I have been advocating my theory on Open Source as a SaaS endgame for sometime now. My recent post on the topic quoting the example of Storytlr has kcik started a round of debate in the web. Matthew Aslett of 451 Group pointed out that releasing the SaaS application as Open Source doesn’t guarantee its [...]

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Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More

December 17, 2009 By 3 Comments

I recently revisited my “open source as a SaaS endgame” theory quoting a news about another web app releasing their code under an open source license before shutting down the shop. As I do with many of my posts here in Cloud Ave, I was wearing my evangelist hat and it resulted in the crux [...]

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Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Storytlr Joins The Elite Group

December 16, 2009 By 2 Comments

Many societies believe in the idea of Afterlife. As far as the human life is concerned, I do not believe in this supernatural concepts. However, when it comes to software “lives”, I believe in eternity (a life without death). I believe that a software can live eternally without the death faced by the lesser mortals, [...]

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