Software as a service: the cultural influence

July 29, 2008, 1:43pm PDT | Length: 00:11:04

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, technology executives discuss perceptions of risk and control with software as a service, and how those feelings are changing in countries that have different software legacies. Panelists include moderator Michael Barker of Revolution Partners, Vance Checketts of Mozy, Russ Daniels of Hewlett-Packard, Drew Clark of IBM, Polly Sumner of Salesforce.com, and Rich Zippel of Sun Microsystems.

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RE: Software as a service: the cultural influence

ED-MAN Software 1st Aug 2010

@mikifinaz1@... The biggest advantage these companies had was the technological illiteracy of the decision makers of the past five years.

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mikifinaz1@... 30th Jul 2008

I want to work unplugged and I don't want to get any meaningful software as a service, particularly the OS. I worked at Microsoft when their main lament was that they wanted to keep their software on their computers and rent it to the public. You think cable sucks, wait until your OS is cable-like!

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@mikifinaz1@... The biggest advantage these companies had was the technological illiteracy of the decision makers of the past five years.

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ED-MAN Software 1st Aug 2010

I am concerned that software as a service in Education is placing a preventable burden on taxpayers. When teachers ran out of chalk we just bought more chalk. We didn't throw out the blackboard and get a new one to go with the chalk. Now we are paying for computers, operating systems, internet access and the information. Taxpayers already paid for the internet and there is plenty of information for free. A five year old computer can manage everything needed in a classroom. Unfortunately the goal of business is to force those computers and operating systems to be obsolete as soon as possible to create new sales. This will be an ever increasing burden on taxpayers from which there can be no return. There are other options.

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