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Historical Reflections: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service.

In this article the author discusses the use of online software services and remote computing. Software as a service (SaaS) occurs when a customer remotely runs software via the Internet, thus utilizing the programs and computer infrastructure of a service provider. The cloud computing services offe...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 28 - 31
Main Author: Campbell-Kelly, Martin
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2009
Subjects:
On-demand computing
Remote computing
Distributed computing
Web services
Salesforce.com Inc.
Cloud computing
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:In this article the author discusses the use of online software services and remote computing. Software as a service (SaaS) occurs when a customer remotely runs software via the Internet, thus utilizing the programs and computer infrastructure of a service provider. The cloud computing services offered by Salesforce.com are also discussed.