A panel of venture capitalists sounded cautiously optimistic about about the future of “enterprise 2.0″ this morning at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Some of the big themes were pretty familiar (hey, did you hear that the online subscription business model, a.k.a. software-as-a-service, still needs time to mature?), but... (Read more)
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“If Gmail’s down for six hours, you can lose your job over that.” -- I think this certainly holds for larger enterprises. For smaller companies, this is a major headache, but the chances of a firing resulting from such an event are much smaller.
The SaaS model gives small companies a chance to operating its systems as a large enterprise, but without the infrastructure and training costs. Our company is a 5-person group, using Salesforce, GoogleMail, FogBuz, and outsourcing all of our server space and computing of a 2 TB database. These services put us in a position to scale more easily, but enjoy most of the conveniences of a larger enterprise, especially in regard to sales tracking and product development.
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