Software as a service: A question of demand.
On December 20, 2007, NetSuite, which provides business software that runs inside a Web browser, saw its share price rise by 37 percent on the first day of trading. On the same day, Salesforce, another firm offering Web-based software, briefly enjoyed market capitalization of almost $8 billion than...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 386; pp. 55 - 56 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
1/5/2008
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