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Webcloudworld is proud to announce a new project : the building of the largest database referencing on-demand tools and services. Do not hesitate to add your own or known services among the available categories !
SAAS, Cloud-computing and On-demand Directory

Peter Laird from BEA has accomplihed a fantastic job by referencing and mapping the major players in the “cloud” industry. It is highly recommanded for anyone interested inthis field to take a look at this visual map and his blog post.

Microsoft Emerging Business Team’s Manager proposes an interesting view, beyond the classical “everything on-demand” in its blog.
A must read!

I just read a post over at PaaSTalk that painted a scary picture in Germany. A recent survey showed that almost half of the ISVs have no plans for SaaS offerings. Granted, some subset of those probably are in a business where SaaS doesn’t fit at this point, but I imagine the remaining ISVs are [...]

Animoto, a succesfull startup enabling people to create dynamic slideshows and spread them trough various social-networks, has managed to deal with its growing server instances thanks to Amazon Webservices : S3 and EC2. Thanks to Amazon, they managed to scale from the equivalent of 50 servers to 2,500 in only three days!
Here [...]