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This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

• Salesforce insists on ‘Facebook for enterprise’

RegisterOn Wednesday, the software-as-a-service provider announced Salesforce.comChatter, which it described as providing “realtime collaboration forcontent …(more)

• Salesforce.com ignores the recession with record Q3

BloggingStocks (blog)In tech circles, you will hear lots about “cloud computing.” Essentially,this means that software applications are operated through Internetconnections …(more)

• What’s next for Salesforce.com ($CRM)?

Enterprise Irregulars (blog)By Chris Selland on November 18, 2009 The poster child for
Software-as-a-Service (saas), by all accounts, continues to execute verywell in a tough business …(more)

• UPDATE 2-Salesforce offers Chatter to companies

ReutersSalesforce helped pioneer software as a service, or SaaS. It sellssubscriptions to use its business software. Shares of San Francisco-basedSalesforce fell …(more)

• Spotlight on tomorrow, at PDC 2009

CIOLElasticity, scalability, unfailing availability, multi tenancy, federatedenvironments, model-driven bases, staged production, self-service etc. aresome of …(more)

• Web Host Rackspace Bolsters SaaS Offerings with Expanded Email and …

By theWHIR.com - Daily Web Hosting News
November 18, 2009 — With Email and Apps division steadily growing thisyear, hosting provider Rackspace is keeping up this momentum with theunveiling of …(more)

• Top Sharepoint Sites - Saas Made Easy

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SAAS MADE EASY is a leader in Microsoft Exchange, Team Foundation Serverand Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting. We are here to make MicrosoftExchange, Team Foundation Server and Virtual Private Server hosting anaffordable, …(more)

• Callidus expands SaaS sales performance management offerings

EDL ConsultingSales performance management software developer Callidus unveiled a newexpansion of its suite of SaaS solutions for the Force.com platform thisweek at …(more)

• Joyent receives Intel Capital infusion for cloud computing hosting service

EDL ConsultingCloud computing hosting company Joyent announced Tuesday that it receivedan infusion of funds from Intel Capital, the semiconductor chip maker’sventure …(more)

• Promethean Group Announces New Board Appointments

By EIN Presswire: Press Releases News
VillageEDOCS, Inc. (OTCBB:VEDO), a Software as a Service company, ispleased to announce the appointment of Gerik M. Degner to its board ofdirectors, effective August 10, 2009. Mr. Degner has numerous. …(more)

• New Acumatica solution lets users switch between on-premise and SaaS

EDL ConsultingDevelopers said that the option of migrating between SaaS and on-premisedeployments will allow users to take advantage of the lower maintenance and…(more)

• WaveMaker 6.0 SaaS-enables Web Apps in Minutes

SYS-CON Media (press release)By Christopher Keene Until today, web developers creating SaaS apps have
been faced with an ugly choice: use proprietary development platforms like…(more)

• Riverbed sets a course for the cloud

NetworkWorld.comThe idea of cloud computing is certainly compelling. With on-demand ITassets, enterprises can adjust more quickly to shifts in demand forapplications, …(more)

• Microsoft investing in Cloud Computing or a Server and PDA line of

Computers?Gerson Lehrman GroupIs Microsoft’s investment in Taiwan to develop cloud computing technologyor build its own line of PDA/laptops and Servers to function within “Cloud…(more)

• MindTouch Joins Google, Zoho in Collaboration Cloud

eWeekMindTouch might be more closely compared to Zoho, which offers bothcollaboration applications delivered via the SAAS (software as a service)model and …(more)

• clearmomentum Raises Series A

Private Equity Hubclearmomentum, the leading provider of fully integrated financial analyticsand reporting software-as-a-service (saas), today made two groundbreaking…(more)

• MindTouch launches its open source cloud

ZDNet (blog)You can argue that clouds are fast becoming synonymous with SaaS, butMindTouch has launched its own cloud to serve up its open sourcecollaboration …(more)

• Is Cloud Computing Ready to …

InternetNews.comVirtualization vendors say cloud computing is the proverbial ‘next bigthing,’ though it’s not necessarily an IT priority yet. By David Needle:More stories …(more)

• Springboard: Mainland SaaS market to reach US$171million in 2010 …

By fmmonteverde
China’s SaaS market is expected to grow at 56 percent next year to reachUS$171 million in revenues by the end of 2010, said Springboard ResearchWednesday.(more)

• Updated - Introducing the 7 SaaS Revenue Streams | Sixteen Ventures

Updated the 7 SaaS Revenue Streams presentation and report.(more)

• Treeno Software Releases Integration module for Users of Intuit’s

QuickBooks …Earthtimes (press release)Like all of Treeno’s products, the QuickBooks Connector is available as ahosted or software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, and is compatible with anyscanner …(more)

• TeleWare Intros SIP Trunking Solutions Offering FREE Resilience on DDIs

TMCnetThe solutions are an outcome of the already existing high quality multitenancy platforms in London Docklands and Heathrow, and are able to beoffered in a …(more)

• Salesforce.com Announces Dramatic Acceleration in Adoption of Force.com …

PR Newswire (press release)As cloud computing use accelerates, Force.com is seeing dramatic adoption:Salesforce.com’s service frequently exceeds 220000000 transactions daily,…(more)

• Salesforce.com: Dreaming About the Clouds

Seeking Alpha (blog)The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing movements haveconverged on the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week for the latestsalesforce.com …(more)

• 8 Steps for Well-Grounded Cloud Computing

Insurance Networking NewsBy now, many of you have been hearing all the grand talk about cloud
computing: how it enables companies to get rid of their IT costs andinstead pay by the …(more)

• Lightweight SOA for Rapid saas Deployment, Benefits of Delivering 3D

Software …SYS-CON Media (press release)While the talk-of-the-town on SOA and saas usually revolves aroundenterprise level software and web applications, it is hardly traceable forany employment …(more)

• BMC takes service desk to the cloud via Salesforce.com

NetworkWorld.comThe solution is a very powerful one as a license already and for customerswho are committed to SaaS for whatever reason in the SMB, this is a greatfit,” …(more)

• What’s Best for You, Platform as a Service or Infrastructure as a Service?

ERP Cloud News (blog)What is the difference between platform as a service and infrastructure asa service? Infrastructure as a service (for example Amazon EC2) provides…(more)

• Aruba Networks Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2010 Financial Results

CNNMoney.com (press release)… of AirWave OnDemand (AoD), an enterprise-class network management andmonitoring solution that is deployed using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)model. …(more)

• Intuit First-Quarter Operating Results Exceed Guidance

WELT ONLINEThis innovative, software-as-a-service tax solution helps professionalsquickly and easily prepare and file federal and state tax returns. …(more)

• Valve: Devs Should Experiment With Post-Release Content Using Digital

DistributionGamasutraby Chris Remo Digital distribution and the “games as a service” model opensup freedom in pricing, but it also gives developers opportunities toconnect …(more)

• QCon SF 2009: Simon Guest, Patterns of Cloud Computing - Stefan …

NET MVC app using the HTTP host name to switch UI and DB Schema; Takeaways:1) Consider multi-tenancy first, hard to retrofit 2) Design considerationsmust include both data and UI specifics 3) Identity as a very importantconsideration …(more)

• Benioff Trumpets Force.com Platform’s Success

PC World… an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platformprovider, not merely a purveyor of saas (software-as-a-service)applications. …(more)

• The King of the Cloud

BusinessWeekThat’s a requirement for cloud-computing companies: Since customers arebuying a service rather than a product, they can walk away if they’re notsatisfied. …(more)

• Chrome OS - is this the first OS for cloud computing?

ComputerWeekly.comIn fact, the whole operating system is optimised for cloud computing. Theneat thing about Google’s appraoch is that any web application will run,…(more)