Technology Strategy and Management Cloud Computing and SaaS as New Computing Platforms

摘要

SaaS and the cloud are clearly new platforms for computing. They replace some traditional software products but will not eliminate them anytime soon. While it is relatively easy for a software product company to create a hosted version of its products, delivering these products over an outside SaaS platform like Amazon, Google, AppExchange, or Windows Azure requires rewriting at least some and maybe most of the code to use the different interfaces and available services.