In working with startup SaaS vendor Sonian Networks (www.soniannetworks.com) I heard the CEO, George Nichols, use the term "Legacy SaaS" to refer to those OLD SaaS providers who build and operate their SaaS offerings the old fashioned way -- you know, using actual servers and databases and what not. The comparison between Sonian as a ...

Google gets a lot of hype, but there are lots of major things happening in SaaS right now, including new offerings from Amazon.com. Amazon.com? You heard me right. Since March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced 3 utility computing offerings: S3 - Simple Storage Service: Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to ...