Old Software Attacking SaaS
Via social|median, ZDNet’s Phil Wainewright notes an uptick in attacks on Web-based software (Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS):
I welcomed Harry Debes’ outburst against SaaS last summer, because being attacked is always better than being ignored. After years of indifference to SaaS, the conventional software world has suddenly woken up to the threat and started attacking it in the hope it will all go away. …
[T]he harder these holdouts rage against SaaS, the more steadily it advances. Today, Evans Data released the results of a developer survey that found almost a third of developers in North America are already working on SaaS projects, and more than half worldwide expect they’ll be doing so in 2009. …
Faced with such a relentless surge, the anti-SaaS chorus is hitting ever more frenetic notes. …
When the attacks become this desperate, you know you’re onto a winner.
Well, we at redPear certainly hope we’re onto a winner — namely, our new SaaS CRM application, redPear|Core. Core is the first in a line of SaaS applications to come.
My sense is that this is only the beginning of the end for old, dinosaur, legacy software and media. Those Old Software and Old Media companies who are capable of changing, of adapting to and embracing this New Software and New (+Social) Media environment, are those who will survive. Those who are only capable of desperately clinging to the Old models and launching baseless attacks on the New will not.