Must read for software engineers.

Thanks to del.icio.us, I found this bookmark http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=157, this blog by Dion Hinchcliff describes 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008. SaaS (Software as a Service) going to knock our doors in coming year.

What is this SaaS? SaaS is nothing but on demand software service from vendor, which software need not be in same box in client machine. SaaS becomes a new way to collaborate, communicate and trade business. To put SaaS in perspective, here is good example, Amazon developed some robust reusable SoA web services which is highly scalable, such as Amazon EC2 compute cloud, Amazon Simple Queue Service. RightScale is a company which just builds platform to access Amazon web services. Now RightScale enabled SaaS for other vendors to reuse Amazon's web service, mainly non techanical users also can access this service with out knowing much details about Amazon web service.

The following are going to be next generation enterprise computing.
SoA - Connectivity which is interoperable, reuse, integration
Web 2.0 - User controlled, Social networking, open, Collectively controlled(Wikipedia)
SaaS - on-Demand network service provider, this could be same vendor who developed Web Service or 3rd party who integrates all web service to make it as usable package.

Just imagine what these technologies would offer to us, you can buy stocks or mutual funds from different countries across global stock markets at one click and manage it efficiently, you can publish family vacation photos to more than one web gallery sites. 



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