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  • Why OData Matters (IMHO)

    Earlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the Open Data Protocol (it was a great presentation - summarized here ). I want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with the basics... What is OData? Where Did OData Come...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-19-2010

  • 8 Trends in Software as a Service Platforms

    To kick off the new year, I presented to around 40 or 50 members of Utah Technology Council ( UTC ) last week. The title of the topic they asked me to speak about was "Trends in Software as a Service Platforms". I searched around for some ideas and came across two recent posts predicting trends in SaaS...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-13-2008

  • PaaS, more than SaaS

    In May 2007 I attended Salesforce.com developer conference where Salesforce SOA was announced as an add-on to the Apex platform. Industry analysts focusing on the area of SaaS considered the move as significant, but not surprising (see Phil Wainewright's take on the new in May 2007 as an example ). The...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-18-2007

  • RESTpectful comparison of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data APIs

    Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007

  • And of Dynamics Live CRM SaaS APIs?

    Todd Bishop reported today of Microsoft's intended entrance next year into the B2B SaaS market with its announcement at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, providing details on pricing and partner revenue-share plans for a hosted service version of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: "Businesses...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-10-2007

  • I'll be at MIX07

    I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be. One of the sessions I'll be looking forward to...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-28-2007

  • Adobe on Apollo Compeitors

    Very interesting post by Andrew Shebanow (senior computer scientist at Adobe), reflecting on some of the reactions and comments he's heard since Apollo went alpha , including comparisons made with other offerings (Microsoft's WPF , Dekoh , Joyent Slingshot + magnetk , Yahoo! Widgets and Firefox...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-25-2007

  • Now my wife will become a Cisco customer instead.

    More acquisitions news: this time Cisco will acquire WebEx . I find this particularly interesting as my wife has been WebEx WebOffice customer for some years now. She runs a small business and in 2001 she was looking for her own intranet-type workgroup functionality : track customers through a customized...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-15-2007
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