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1. Adobe Embraces the Cloud - Hazy Days Ahead for Microsoft?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... received significant attention from the press and bloggers, and highlights the degree to which Microsoft's office monopoly is being attacked. A number of excellent articles discuss what's available in ...

2. Microsoft to Partners: We Still Don't Get SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... to transition is pursuing a "hybrid" strategy. We've watched SAP and Oracle stumble into all sorts of problems trying to seek the middle ground, and now it seems Microsoft wants to join the party.  ...

3. Traditional CRM vendor fights back by integrating SharePoint, Outlook
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

Traditional CRM vendor fights back by integrating SharePoint, Outlook Microsoft may be engaged in a price war with Salesforce.com, but traditional server-based CRM vendors have hardly rolled over and cried ...

4. Insights and Observations from the Pacific Crest On-Demand Conference
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... other systems indefinitely. Salesforce.com still supports each of its 12 versions of its API. How many on-premise vendors can claim anything even close? EMC, SAP, Microsoft and Oracle make it clear to ...

5. Google and salesforce.com : Solutions for business, meet solutions for businesspeople
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... provider of solutions for business people (e.g., Microsoft) quickly fades to disappointment and failed expectations. This failure is inevitable because on-premise software is too inflexible to bridge this ...

6. Is Microsoft's SaaS Office Offering Really Just an Attempt to Push OneCare?
(Platform as a Service/SaaS Week)

We knew this day was coming, and now it seems Microsoft has finally launched its Software as a Service Office offering for consumers. The project was called Albany while in development and is now named ...

7. Signposts for the Week Ending August 15th, 2008
(Platform as a Service/Adaptive Path Blog)

... her inspiring UX Team of One.  If you want to learn more about the story of the Ribbon (part of Microsoft’s latest Office application) check out Jensen Harris’ blog archive. The ...

8. The Google Homepage - The Future Face of SaaS?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

...  Adoption of Google Applications -- Frustration with Microsoft Vista and Office migration and management costs have led to many companies piloting Google Apps. P&G, GE, Prudential, and L'Oreal, ...

9. Now that’s a Big PaaS Market
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... support knowledge workers beyond issuing them a copy of Microsoft Office. McKinsey notes that the IT investment in supporting “tacit interactions” - a form of knowledge work - lag IT investment in supporting ...

10. What Do Open Source and On-Demand Have in Common?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... - about a potential recession, whether hybrid vendors like Oracle and Microsoft will succeed in on-demand, why Salesforce is betting on the platform play versus offering more applications, etc. One ...

11. May the Force.com Be with You
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... far as to call Force.com a direct challenge to Microsoft and “the bigger prize” in the blog-inspired rumor that Oracle may acquire Salesforce.com. While the rumor has not been confirmed by any of the parties ...

12. Who is “fit” to provide enterprise apps?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Narinder Singh The SaaS blogosphere has been abuzz these last couple of days discussing Sergey Solyanik’s assessment that Google’s culture is “not fit” for enterprise apps. We’ll say up front that Appirio ...

13. Translate Word Documents Quickly with Windows Live Translator
(Platform as a Service/Digital Inspiration)

Microsoft Word and other Office programs gave a built-in language translator powered by WorldLingo but now you can also integrate the Windows Live Translator service into Office that in-turn uses Systran. ...

14. Salesforce/Oracle Deal?
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

Silicon Valley Watcher's Tom Foremski is reporting that a reliable source tells him Salesforce.com has approached Oracle about a potential sale. If you've had your fill of Microsoft/Yahoo news this week, ...

15. Salesforce and Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... Fortune 500 enterprises to switch from Microsoft Office applications to Google Apps because Google Apps is still missing important features that enterprises want, such as role-based administration, the ...

16. Windows Live Writer Tip: Insert Pictures in your Blog via Zemanta
(Platform as a Service/Digital Inspiration)

... embed them in your posts. Microsoft Office users may also find Zemanta useful because you can pull images and relevant links for Word Documents or PowerPoint Presentations via Live Writer. Windows ...

17. Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Times Blog)

Linda Brewton starts her piece over at The Motley Fool with that line as she takes a short jab at Microsoft's new strategy for delivering it's online business kit. The strategy?  It's basically the rest ...

18. Today's Google/Salesforce Announcement: Google Data API Toolkit
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

... mantra: Anything but Microsoft VentureBeat: Salesforce and Google take their partnership a step further with new APIs  ...

19. Salesforce for Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

... and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft CNET News.com: Google, Salesforce link up for business apps ZDNet: Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge (Thanks to Alex and all others who sent this ...

20. For the end-user, the UI is the application
(Platform as a Service/Software As A Service Blog)

... and using one business logic code-base operating in OpenEdge application servers running on UNIX, Linux or Microsoft.   Choice is good and OpenEdge gives you the power to choose.   Do ...