{"id":299,"date":"2006-08-11T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=299"},"modified":"2006-08-11T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T20:19:45","slug":"wheres-the-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/08\/11\/wheres-the-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Where's the Hosting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went comment trolling — looking at old, interesting posts on blogs to see if there were new comments — a bit this morning and found this great plea-comment from Stephen Hood asking why “doesn’t host Domino\/Notes on a large scale”?<\/a> on Ian Murdock’s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nWhy IBM doesn’t host Domino\/Notes on a large scale is beyond me. It’s not like they don’t have the hardware to do it. Given the potential market it would be a very “cheap” investment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, we often wonder and suggest that ourselves, and not just with IBM. Hopefully it’s clear that, in general, RedMonk is big on hosted\/SaaS deployment models. Speaking for myself, among the popular reasons, I’m enamored of those models because they allow the vendor (or “software provider”) to release more frequent updates<\/a> than the current “big-bang” release cycles<\/a>, giving their customers and users quicker access to new features. That said, Spiceworks showed earlier this week<\/a> (as have many other apps) that you can do rapid released on packaged apps as well.<\/p>\n

Of course, for the vendors, moving from a packaged culture of software development to the hosted culture is a huge leap. I know: I wouldn’t think so either, but all my experience and conversations point to that being the case.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, back to Stephen’s questioning out-loud. When looking for more info on IBM’s hosting plans in response to Stephen’s comment, I came across this post<\/a> (looks like James found it as well<\/a>) which points to this post<\/a> that looks like they’d be a good answers to Stephen’s questions. It looks exciting.<\/p>\n

(As a side note, if you come across this, Stephen, is this you<\/a>?)<\/p>\n

Disclaimer:<\/b> IBM is a client.<\/p>\n

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Technorati Tags: hosted<\/a>, saas<\/a>, ibm<\/a>, lotus<\/a>, greenhouse<\/a><\/p>\n

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I went comment trolling — looking at old, interesting posts on blogs to see if there were new comments — a bit this morning and found this great plea-comment from Stephen Hood asking why “doesn’t host Domino\/Notes on a large scale”? on Ian Murdock’s blog: Why IBM doesn’t host Domino\/Notes on a large scale is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-enterprise-software","category-the-new-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}