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Jeff Hardy tells me why SmarterTools ‘built their own Cloud’

Continuing my current run of podcasts, I spoke with Jeff Hardy of SmarterTools on Friday. Jeff is VP of Business Operations for the company, and gave a presentation (PDF) at PubCon towards the end of last year in which he dissected some of the marketing noise around major providers of Cloud-based hosting. As we discuss [...]

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Chatting with Sinclair Schuller about making it easier to deploy SaaS applications

Image via CrunchBase I’ve written before about Sinclair Schuller and the work he’s doing at Apprenda. Yesterday, I recorded a podcast to continue some of our earlier conversations in more public form, and this is now available here. Have a listen, and see what you think about the need for intermediaries such as Apprenda to [...]

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A short chat with Duane Jackson of KashFlow about building SaaS applications

I spent some time yesterday afteroon talking with Duane Jackson, CEO of UK accountancy software firm KashFlow. Our conversation was recorded as a podcast, and published as part of the Talis series that I’ll keep contributing to over the coming months. Those podcasts have tended to focus specifically on the Semantic Web, but we’re keen [...]

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So do ‘Cloud Babies’ like metadata?

Bob Warfield offers an interesting commentary in a recent post to the SmoothSpan blog, which aligns nicely with some thoughts that Dan Grigorovici kicked off in my head with his 4 January post to Jupiter‘s Web3Beat. Almost tangential to the main thrust of Warfield’s post, he writes; “There are two ways the SaaS world tackles [...]

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Does SaaSGrid speed the process of delivering SaaS applications?

As mentioned in my previous post, I recently spoke with Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller ahead of this week’s announcement of SaaSGrid. The formal release is perhaps deliberately ironic; “In an industry flooded with buzzwords and numerous companies jumping on the platform bandwagon, Apprenda cuts through the SaaS platform clutter and draws a bold line with [...]

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