Cloud: SaaS comes of age
What started as a niche over a decade ago has now gone mainstream. Ian Campbell talks to a man who has been selling the concept of software-as-a-service since the beginning.
As founder of Salesforce. com in Europe in 2000, Irishman Fergus Gloster can claim to be one of the first purveyors of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and better qualified than most to talk about its evolution. He remembers the pre-cloud world, where the talk was of on-demand and utility computing as software companies struggled to come up with something as compelling as Salesforce. What was the problem?
"They were trying to find better ways to ...