SQLFusion blogs

Jeff Kaplan, Software as a service specialist, mentioned SQLFusion in a blog post trying to dispell some Saas myths.

I definitely recommend you to have a look at his post and blog: ( Click here )

To add one point to Jeff's post, I would like to mention that Open Source Fusion (SQLFusion on-demand platform) not only provides open source software as a service, but additionally it allows a company to get customized/integrated open source software if needed. That software can either be developed by the company technical team using Open Source Fusion development tools or it can be developed by SQLFusion open source specialists for this company.

In other words, Open Source Fusion offers the best of what Saas can offer, giving you the choice between the one size fits all option (picking and using one of the many existing open source software for CRM, ERP, CMS, etc.) or a customized/integrated solution that matches the specificities of a business, building upon open source software.

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I read an interesting article today by GF Colony: "My view: The Google Future". I personally doubt that X-internet is the way of the future. I believe, instead, in AJAX. Indeed, AJAX proves that it is possible to have web applications acting as equals of programs installed on a desktop (even partly installed, as is the case with X-internet apps) -- I would even say better than desktop applications.

I would also like to mention what I think was a mistake in the article: "So it's pretty simple: Programs can do things; Web pages are static documents". Web pages can be full applications, not just static document.

With Open Source Fusion, SQLFusion has built an AJAX substitute for web development applications that exist today. It is fully server based, running in any browser (written in PHP) and it is faster and more full-featured than the desktop applications it competes with. I have seen several other companies -- and open source projects -- developing impressive web-based applications, and I believe that that is much more "the upcoming trend" than X-internet is. If you look at WebERP, Dotproject, SugarCRM, Vtiger, wikis, etc. You don't need a program installed on your desktop, cell phone, PDA, etc. in order to take advantage of them.

It is true, however, that it will take some time to see a lot of mature web applications such as SugarCRM, but I can easily imagine that their adoption will outpace X-internet type of applications (note that SugarCRM has cumulated hundreds of thousands of downloads in just a few months).

And as a conclusion, perhaps the best would be this. Which application is most used today: Google maps (fully web-based) or Google Earth (X-internet). If there was a poll, I'm pretty certain we would see that the portion of people using Google maps is far larger.

For those of you who follow the same blogs as I do, this map will come as no surprise. But if you are not a consistent reader of Dan Grossman, John Batelle or Tim O'Reilly's blogs, then you may be interested in this chart, which tries to summarize how the Web has evolved as a platform.

You can see the map here.

Here are some of the points that I particularly like in this graph. These are what come out of having the Web as a platform (i.e. moving applications from the desktop to the Web):

"You control your own data", "Architecture of participation", "Harnessing collective intelligence", "The right to remix", "Trust your users", "Rich user experience" and "User behavior not determined".

Even then, this graph seems too complex. Do any of you have a more synthesized version of what the Web as a platform will become?