http://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/archive/2007/02/16/saas-for-dummies.aspxSaaS is a continually evolving mix of existing and emerging technologies and business models and as I have suggested seems to be best described in terms of the following six characteristics (although I am sure there are more). Application Licensing Locationen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/archive/2007/02/16/saas-for-dummies.aspx#659613Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:21:13 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:659613Matt Deacon<p>Looks like this generated some comments on Eric's blog recently.</p> <p>Saying &quot;SaaS is a fad&quot; was perhaps inappropriate phrase in hindsight as it was more the term SaaS itself that I dislike, not the concepts underpinning it. The problem when you disect the concepts behind SaaS as I have here is that really you're left just with the fact that this is just about how Software is delivered and the fact is it can be delivered in anyway you want to imagine.</p> http://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/archive/2007/02/16/saas-for-dummies.aspx#664004Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:23:31 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:664004Eric Nelson - Development for .NET Framework 3.0 for ISVs<p>20th Feb DAY 2 of 7 On the 15th I wrote a blog entry about the SAAS workshop we are running after I realised</p>