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SaaS Benefits
The true sign of SaaS’s arrival is that it has garnered the sincere interest, and better yet dollars, of the investment community.  More people in a greater array of business roles are giving SaaS the ol’ thumbs up....
SaaS Drawbacks
After reading this article some of you are probably thinking “Damn, Why would anyone even think of getting into SaaS?!” But for the ones that are still not convinced check the benefits before making any decision. As with anything else you should always make a decision after you have considered all things good and bad....
Nine Things to Know About SaaS
Here are West's answers to some basic questions about the SaaS market. IT and business users (and Internet service providerss trying to evolve into SaaS providers) need to know the following information about this new and quickly evolving option for purchasing IT services
On The Bleeding Edge of Platform as a Service 
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“It’s actually quite tough to build a secure, multi-tenant, on-demand application that’s customizable and integratable,” he explained. “Our goal as a platform was to make it so that it was easy.”
Steve Fisher, head of platform development , Salesforce.com
Transition to SaaS: Multi-tenant architecture vs. Virtualization
Multi-tenant design is considered to be more efficient than multi-instancing, but in reality, as always, your mileage will vary. And to make the estimation process easier, I'd like to shed some light – from the ISV's point of view – on the "dark side" of the multi-tenant approach

Virtualization – The silver-coated bullet

There is no silver bullet, but in this case, there is a silver-coated one.