Archive for January, 2009

I could title this, “Confessions of a Serial In-house Build-over-buy Guy” as I was guilty of doing this many, many times. Regardless of how good your team is (I have been privileged to lead some of the best) and how unique your requirements are, it will ALWAYS be more expensive to build “it” in-house (vs. using a Software-as-a-Service model). To see why (and for my counter-arguement as to when it is wise to do this), keep reading…

Regardless of your political orientation, the wrap-up of 2008 has clearly not been what we all hoped for in terms of the economy. The recent free-fall in the economy has affected much more than the financial capital markets–it has hammered the IT and software capital budgets of nearly every business (just ask any large-ticket enterprise software vendor if you do not believe me). As a result, there is no better time for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)…