Comments on: The Advantages of SaaS in an Open Source Model http://www.crmoutsiders.com/2008/02/27/the-advantages-of-saas-in-an-open-source-model/ Former analyst and journalist discuss CRM from the vendor-side Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:01:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Simon Wardley http://www.crmoutsiders.com/2008/02/27/the-advantages-of-saas-in-an-open-source-model/#comment-102 Simon Wardley Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:10:34 +0000 http://www.crmoutsiders.com/2008/02/27/the-advantages-of-saas-in-an-open-source-model/#comment-102 Completely agree. There are enormous benefits of combing open source and SaaS. It is only through this route that it is possible to create a competitive utility market with an ecosystem of providers and portability between those service providers. This is important because such a marketplace can overcome the adoption fears of SaaS (lock-in, reliability etc). The growth of SaaS should be accelerated by open source and providers working together on the principle that a small piece of a big pie is way better than a big piece of a small one. I talked about this at OSCON '07 (video of my presentation is at http://blip.tv/file/414050) and at various blog posts over the years (see http://blog.gardeviance.org/2007/07/competition-not-greed-is-good.html) Completely agree.

There are enormous benefits of combing open source and SaaS. It is only through this route that it is possible to create a competitive utility market with an ecosystem of providers and portability between those service providers. This is important because such a marketplace can overcome the adoption fears of SaaS (lock-in, reliability etc).

The growth of SaaS should be accelerated by open source and providers working together on the principle that a small piece of a big pie is way better than a big piece of a small one.

I talked about this at OSCON ‘07 (video of my presentation is at http://blip.tv/file/414050) and at various blog posts over the years (see http://blog.gardeviance.org/2007/07/competition-not-greed-is-good.html)

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