Comments on: SaaS: Shelfware as a service? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com http://elnblog.com/2009/10/saas-shelfware-as-a-service-between-the-lines-zdnet-com/ Electronic Lab Notebooks Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: John H. Jones http://elnblog.com/2009/10/saas-shelfware-as-a-service-between-the-lines-zdnet-com/comment-page-1/#comment-1157 John H. Jones Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:22:09 +0000 http://elnblog.com/?p=324#comment-1157 Simon, Agree completely. That is exactly our perspective at LabLynx with our LIMS product. However, SaaS does something that the traditional software model cannot do easily. It provides instant gratification when it comes to trying out the software. If you have ever tried to deal with installation of Open Source (OS) apps, you know what a PITA it is. SaaS is a real benefit to OS apps. Now with the inclusion of OS applications as a SaaS delivery, they can become more mainstream and can be better monetized by the software developer. I created: http://www.saasforscience.com just for this purpose. For your ELN product, please feel free to go to this site and create your own group like what I did for OpenClinica and then invite folks to join your group. The idea is to build a big marketplace for SaaS applications that vendors can create their own groups for free and users can join for free. It is all free because it costs me nothing and a big community is better for all of us. So the point is... SaaS affords instant gratification to the vendors and users and helps cut the time line down between the thought that you need a system and finally having one. Thx, John Simon,

Agree completely. That is exactly our perspective at LabLynx with our LIMS product. However, SaaS does something that the traditional software model cannot do easily. It provides instant gratification when it comes to trying out the software.

If you have ever tried to deal with installation of Open Source (OS) apps, you know what a PITA it is. SaaS is a real benefit to OS apps. Now with the inclusion of OS applications as a SaaS delivery, they can become more mainstream and can be better monetized by the software developer.

I created: http://www.saasforscience.com just for this purpose. For your ELN product, please feel free to go to this site and create your own group like what I did for OpenClinica and then invite folks to join your group. The idea is to build a big marketplace for SaaS applications that vendors can create their own groups for free and users can join for free. It is all free because it costs me nothing and a big community is better for all of us.

So the point is… SaaS affords instant gratification to the vendors and users and helps cut the time line down between the thought that you need a system and finally having one.

Thx,

John

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