Software-as-a-Service Now on Menu of Large Companies

A second generation of software on-demand applications shows their value, even for larger organizations.

By Martin Veitch

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An alternative possibility is that those same giants ramp up their own SaaS offerings. So far, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft have only taken baby steps into on-demand computing and must fear that anything more could disturb the cash-cow businesses that were founded on the client/server model. However, with Gartner predicting that SaaS could represent a third of all business application spending by 2012, they might be forced to move faster than they would like.

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