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Salesforce taps into Facebook and Twitter

Salesforce.com has reinforced its drive into customer services with social-networking software to help firms exploit consumer expertise. Read more »

Firms will adopt hybrid software cloud

Most businesses will deploy a hybrid cloud computing model based on proprietary and open source software due to the complexity of niche enterprise applications, said a Red Hat executive. Read more »

Gartner: SaaS could cost more in the long term

The benefits of software-as-a-service may not be as clear cut as they seem, with the focus on the initial savings hiding issues that could reduce its advantage over packaged software in the longer term. Read more »

SAP unveils Business Suite 7

Global software giant SAP has announced the release of Business Suite 7 overnight, including updates to all the business applications available with the suite. Read more »

LCA '09: Sysadmins after the cloud

The uptake of cloud computing was rendering many traditional systems administrator functions obsolete, tech author and Google sysadmin Tom Limoncelli told attendees at Linux.conf.au (LCA) in Hobart this week. Read more »

Salesforce.com service on a cloud lifts off

Salesforce.com on Thursday announced Service Cloud, an extension to its software as a service (SaaS) model that is intended as a way for companies to communicate with their customers over the web. Read more »

Developers expect to get SaaSy this year

More than half of software developers worldwide expect to work on internet-hosted applications during 2009, confirming the success of software as a service, according to a survey from Evans Data. Read more »

Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of businesses

Thousands of businesses were left without access to their applications Tuesday after Salesforce.com's servers suffered a service disruption. Read more »

IT security: The trends to watch in 2009

In the arms race between security specialists and threats, it's hard enough keeping up with advisories, warnings of potential problems and new philosophies of safe IT, let alone mixing in the rapidly changing technological and economical implications of the connected environment. Read more »

Developers want Ballmer to show money

Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers. Read more »

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Development trends to watch in 2010

What will be important development trends in 2010? This article covers .NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, cloud computing and more. Read more »

10 low-cost, high-value Web 2.0 strategies

Innovation around Web 2.0 technologies continues to pick up steam as companies look for ways to cut spending and get more from the solutions they choose. This article outlines some of the top cost-effective web-orientated tools and strategies. Read more »

Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?

Regardless of the few reports that are out there indicating that the recession might be coming to an end, more people than not are feeling the squeeze these days. Read more »

Google Apps charges ahead with improved data security, long-awaited Java support

Cast Iron Systems and Google have teamed up to overcome one of the biggest hurdles to cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) in the enterprise -- concerns over data security. Read more »

Performance often still matters

Do developers care about performance anymore? I seriously doubt it, at least for the vast majority (over 90 per cent) of developers. Read more »

10 ways to manage your risk with web applications

Web apps continue to grow in popularity, but companies have legitimate concerns about security and reliability. Here are some ways to address potential risks and make sure you choose the right vendor. Read more »

Will cloud computing change how IT works today?

More and more companies will see value in allowing companies that are better suited to handle their infrastructure, while they just plug and play their data into that infrastructure backbone. If you haven't guessed, it is the birth of cloud computing. Read more »

'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst says

This article discusses an analyst's "obituary" for service-oriented architecture and explains why he agrees that the term "SOA" itself gets in the way. Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Interview: Getting sassy with SaaS

We sat down with Salesforce's Doug Farber to talk about the benefits of using the SaaS model and how developers can take advantage of cloud computing on the company's Force.com platform. Read more »

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Microsoft CEO talks Google, SaaS

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets. Read more »

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Chrome gets extensions

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we look at the release of Chrome for Mac and Linux and its support for extensions, a security flaw in Safari, popularity of SaaS and more. Read more »

Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

Microsoft's vision of meshing

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- The main topic at this year's Microsoft Tech.Ed keynote was the combination of Live Mesh platform and Software plus Services -- Microsoft's version of SaaS. Read more »

Do you trust data in the cloud?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »

Salesforce's new AIR toolkit

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Following the announcement that Salesforce will provide a free toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR development on its Force.com platform, I spoke to the company’s Doug Farber, the Vice President of Operations, Asia Pacific about its functionality and other issues surrounding the toolkit. Read more »

Mercantile Mashups

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Making mashups for a living is a web developers dream - it may be closer than you think. Read more »

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