Microsoft lowers price for online services including BPOS and offers free SaaS to Salesforce and Oracle customers

According to various news sources and Microsoft’s website, on Monday November 2, 2009 Microsoft slashed prices on its core SaaS offerings such as BPOS reducing it from $15 per user, per month to $10 per user, per month. In addition, Microsoft now offers six months of free SaaS to the existing customers of Saleforce and [...]

New “Cloud” kid on the block – LotusLive iNotes

Well folks, it seems that old good IBM is not sitting on the fence when it comes to both “cloud” computing and Software as a Service market. Instead, it moved fast following Google and Microsoft introducing what they call LotusLive iNotes. Essentially, the service is similar to Gmail that offered as a part of Google [...]

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Over the past several weeks we have received overwhelming response and a large number of requests concerning Google Apps Premium vs. Microsoft BPOS blog post. We would like to thank all our valued customers, readers and friends for their ongoing patronage.
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Google Apps vs. Microsoft BPOS – Comparative Analysis

While Microsoft is clearly playing catch-up with Google Apps, and firmly believes that they are number one in the “Cloud” computing, based on the independent test of both offering performed by our team, we must conclude that at present Microsoft BPOS falls short in terms of collaboration security, offered data storage, video and audio conferencing quality, and…

Cloud Computing or SaaS Disadvantages

Friends,
To continue the previous blog post that quite frankly only mentioned “Cloud” computing advantages, I thought it would be beneficial to examine “Cloud” computing, or SaaS disadvantages.
Unfortunately, in the technology space, there is no such thing as one size fit all. It would be nice however to develop a solution that can equally benefit any [...]

Cost Saving Tech Trends for 2009 – Cloud Computing

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“Cloud” computing has been on minds of IT professionals for several years. Like any other IT infrastructure approach, cloud computing has its advantages and disadvantages. One of the key advantages is that because software applications are in the “Cloud”, and delivered as a service, it does not require any additional hardware or software on premises [...]

Cost Saving Tech Trends for 2009

Friends,
Over the next several days, we will be posting information that may help business leaders and technology professionals to get trough the financial crisis without sacrificing quality of service.
Latest forecast by InfoTech Research provides businesses of all sizes with top cost saving technology trends such as broader adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS), short-term [...]