Net Fusion

The future of software is free

Microsoft has to change.

By: Gaith S

The internet has allowed the introduction of new model of software which is web based, or Software as a service SaaS, where in order to use an  application all you need is internet connection and a browser and you do not need to download any thing on the PC.

SaaS is evolving, Google introduced Google’s apps which are documents and spread sheet,  documents which are a web based word processor based in technologies developed by writely a company which Google bought last year, now Google offers its document and spread sheet web based applications for free, a direct attack against Microsoft’s office.

Google’s business model is to offer these apps for free making money from advertising, and to make money it might do the same why it did with Gmail: a spider reads the content of the do

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Microsoft is in talks with yahoo to acquire the company for an estimated $50 US billion, the deal is an attempt by both companies to combine their powers to better compete with rival Google which owns more that 60% of search.

 MS and yahoo have to find a way to put together competing produc

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By: Gaith

Finally Microsoft –MS- has entered the software as a service –SaaS- market, on last wednesday MS will debut its first hosted, on-demand software in its Dynamics line of financial, customer relationship, and supply management applications. The move could help the company stave off rivals offering software as a service.

SaaS is hosted web apps that are hosted at the service provider servers and that can be rented to companies in pay-per-user basses, clients do not need to install any software in their computers all they need is internet connection with a  web browser to use the SaaS application.

Dubbed Titan, the customer relationship management software will be available either as a service—hosted by Microsoft itself—or as a traditional application, where it should be hosted at the clients server not MS servers.

The move could help Microsoft compete against big SaaS rivals such as Salesforce.com, increasing Dynamics revenue as well as sales of other software lines such as Office. And that’s Microsoft’s plan.

 
Titan is just a start. However, it’s an important maneuver for Microsoft to provide a wider

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