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How to Explain Cloud Computing to Your CFO
Author: Bernard Golden; Source: CIO Magazine
An overview of the recent report 'Talking to Your CFO About Cloud Computing', by Forrester Research, is provided by the author of the bestselling book to date on virtualization.

Time for a SaaS Code of Conduct
Author: Phil Wainewright; Source: ZDNet
With SaaS and Web services becoming more mainstream, people are expecting more of their vendors. Phil Wainewright makes the case for a 'SaaS Code of Conduct'; when you get right down to it. While he suggests an industry certification program against his 5 proposed criteria, one could certainly use these as best practices to set customers expectations.

What Does Obama Mean for Cloud Computing?
Author: Krishnan Subramanian; Source: Web 2.0 Journal
From protecting the openness of the internet to safeguarding our right to privacy, this open source entrepreneur and ex-physicist says Obama's technology blueprint sets the groundwork for more success in cloud computing. He states clearly that this is not a political post, but an analysis of the President Elect's policies.

Software as a Service: It Should Be the Best of Times, but It Isn't
Author: Larry Dignan; Source: ZDNet
Editor in Chief of ZDNet gives his take on the state of the SaaS industry, using brief case studies of NetSuite, Amazon, Salesforce.com and others to make his point that this economic slowdown is affecting even the industry most likely to prosper in the downturn.

IDC Cloud Blog Series
Author: Various IDC Analysts; Source: IDC eXchange
Eight IDC blog posts (link goes to the table of contents); each post can be read as a stand alone, but when read as a series, can be read as a 'coherent IDC overview of this emerging model and market opportunity'.

Nine Web 2.0 Startups Beating the Odds in a Down Economy
Author: C.G. Lynch; Source: CIO.com
More good news for the industry in these tough times; this article primarily focuses on web conferencing, but notes the potential benefit to all on-demand collaboration tools - blogs, wikis, and social-networking too.

Economic Woes May Lower SaaS Prices
Author: Chris Kanaracus; Source: NetworkWorld
To lower or not to lower - that is the question. Article explores experiences various SaaS companies are having with pricing pressure, as well as providing expert opinions of analysts. OpSource customer Yoics is profiled.

Using SaaS to Market SaaS: Powering Social Media to Drive Leads

Selling SaaS to Corporate IT: Integrate or Fail

Sneak Peek! The State of SaaS: Softletter's 2008 SaaS Survey

OpSource and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Enter Into Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Software as a Service Adoption Worldwide

OpSource Ranked Number 39 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Internet, Media & Entertainment and Communication Companies

OpSource Billing CLM Generates Revenue for On-Demand Companies

Welcome to the SaaS Showcase - a place for you to see what other successful on-demand companies are doing, glean best practices, find partners and more.

OpSource Customers In the News:

Ribbit Announces Channel Partner Program, Launches 2.0 Release of Ribbit for Salesforce CRM (MarketWatch)

Boomi Announces AtomSphere: Industry's First Integration Platform-as-a-Service (SaaS Network Architect)

Other Industry News:

SaaS for the SaaS-less (ZDNet)

Microsoft Takes Two Big Leaps Into the Cloud (ComputerWorld)

10 Social Networks and What They Say About the People Who Use Them (SFWeekly.com)

Enterprise SaaS is Mainstream. Today. (SmoothSpan Blog)