http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-cloud-lawyers-and-saas/ Legal technology, technologylaw and other musings. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:59:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-cloud-lawyers-and-saas/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Wes Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:44:53 +0000 http://denniskennedy_com.innosoftware.net/?p=1459#comment-382 Today I read your blog post on cloud computing and SaaS in August's ABA Journal. I thought it was very good and very accurate. However I saw one quote that I thought could be clarified a bit. "In fact, the term SaaS was substituted for ASP because of the negative feelings caused by the ASP-bubble era." Though SaaS is similar to ASP's, it certainly is not the same thing. ASP's were hosting legacy software that still contained all the inherent legacy software drawbacks, while SaaS is software completely built in the cloud. One of the best definitions I have seen is found here in this service-now.com white paper: - http://www.computerworld.com/pdfs/Service-Now-BriefhistoryofSaaS.pdf - Today I read your blog post on cloud computing and SaaS in August’s ABA Journal. I thought it was very good and very accurate. However I saw one quote that I thought could be clarified a bit.
“In fact, the term SaaS was substituted for ASP because of the negative feelings caused by the ASP-bubble era.”
Though SaaS is similar to ASP’s, it certainly is not the same thing. ASP’s were hosting legacy software that still contained all the inherent legacy software drawbacks, while SaaS is software completely built in the cloud.
One of the best definitions I have seen is found here in this service-now.com white paper:
- http://www.computerworld.com/pdfs/Service-Now-BriefhistoryofSaaS.pdf -

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