Talk about your rapid changes in the tech industry, today is quite a day. Google may be investing $1B in AOL and there are rumors of Google purchasing Opera. This totally makes sense from Google's perspective. Then there is the Amazon.com bomb, they are opening up their Alexa or A9 Search Engine as a service that developers can use to build on as a new type of platform. "What's in Jeff Bezos's bag?".
Amazon.com is calling this Amazon Web Services or AWS. Check out their AWS reference applications listing. This reminds me of Salesforce.com which is another software as a service provider that is relatively successful in this emerging area of software. If you haven't yet seen SalesForce.com, then you are in for quite an amazing adventure. They publish their entire product as a service for CRM solution. The documentation on their online services is quite impressive. I have had the chance to read the Java documentation for SalesForce.com and it is qutie in-depth and impressive.
Now back to Amazon.com, if they can do what SalesForce.com has done then Jeff Bezos may have some success with continuing the innovative spirit that he has always had leading Amazon.com. It looks like 2006 may be quite a year for software as a service .
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