By Phil Wainewright
Anshu and I both enjoy thinking a little differently from the crowd. We first met a little over three years ago through the Enterprise Irregulars, a select group of independent-minded bloggers who write about enterprise software trends like SaaS and Web 2.0. At the time, he was working for Oracle, heading up a program to highlight the vendor's credentials as a supplier of SaaS platform software. This was a classic Anshu project: take nothing as read, research the facts, calmly contradict the conventional wisdom.
Shortly afterwards in January 2008, Anshu was tempted away to join Salesforce.com's platform as a service team, where he is responsible for the Force.com platform strategy. The thing I like most about Anshu is that he has an engineer's mind but a humanist's empathy. He can effortlessly switch the conversation from a discussion of multi-tenancy to the tale of how his father in India, who'd never used a computer, started keeping a blog last year -- and leave you feeling enriched by both accounts. It's no surprise that Anshu's blog has such a strong following and he is frequent contributor online and as a speaker at industry events.
Phil Wainewright, SaaS Blogger, ZD Net
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Article: The Cloud is Falling |
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September 12 2008
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Yes, the cloud is falling. And on-premise software executives are lining up to explain to us why the cloud computing era is distant and the promise of SaaS and PaaS is false. I will let you decide after reading this post by Vinnie and the original Forbes article.
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Article: PaaS Magic from Coda with Force.com and Google Apps |
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June 03 2008
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The value of platform as a service (PaaS) is not that you can take your on-premise applications and run them in the cloud - that's so ASP! In my opinion (and what would a blog be without one), the real value is in enabling functionality that was simply impossible or too hard in an on-premise world.
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Article: Run By Wall St? Company or Cause? |
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May 06 2008
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In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether there is too much emphasis on just one stakeholder - the shareholder. After all, shouldn't a technology company (or any company for that matter) be equally focused on the value for customers, partners and employees.
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