Comments on: IT enters its most fertile development era ever http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/15/it-enters-its-most-fertile-development-era-ever/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:07:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dana Gardner http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/15/it-enters-its-most-fertile-development-era-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-23609 Dana Gardner Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:51:04 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/15/it-enters-its-most-fertile-development-era-ever/#comment-23609 I couldn't agree more. Thanks for your input. Dana G. I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for your input.

Dana G.

]]> By: Sandro Groganz http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/15/it-enters-its-most-fertile-development-era-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-23392 Sandro Groganz Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:49:48 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/15/it-enters-its-most-fertile-development-era-ever/#comment-23392 Dana, thanks for summing up the current trends so well. I regard the combination of Open Source and SaaS as extremely powerful, both from a business and development standpoint. OSS and SaaS allow for broad and early user feedback. For both of them, the rule is "release early, release often" - that's why so many Web 2.0 SaaS offer basic functionality in beta status and get extended along the way while there are already paying users. Additionally, an OSS community can quickly become a vibrant ecosystem of third-party contributors implementing new features of all sorts which can then again be integrated into a SaaS offer. Basically, the marriage of OSS and SaaS is the optimal combination of lean production and lean solutions in software business. Sandro Dana,

thanks for summing up the current trends so well.

I regard the combination of Open Source and SaaS as extremely powerful, both from a business and development standpoint. OSS and SaaS allow for broad and early user feedback. For both of them, the rule is “release early, release often” – that’s why so many Web 2.0 SaaS offer basic functionality in beta status and get extended along the way while there are already paying users.

Additionally, an OSS community can quickly become a vibrant ecosystem of third-party contributors implementing new features of all sorts which can then again be integrated into a SaaS offer.

Basically, the marriage of OSS and SaaS is the optimal combination of lean production and lean solutions in software business.

Sandro

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