SaaS?

Should you use SaaS (Software As A Service)?

Yes you can, if:
1. You do not have capital to invest in infrastructure
2. You do not care about data back up

I think SaaS is a great concept and most of it comes for free. But relying on something like salesforce.com or any other similar platform for storing your information, without enough back up plan, sounds risky to me.

What if the service goes down?
How do you take care of backing up of data?

Data backup is mandatory from conpliance perspective. So if you are using AWS or Google Apps, how do you accomplish this?

Comments & ideas weclome ...

IBM to make DB2 open source

Ran into this post ...

IBM's UK director says:

Looking at IBM's heritage in contributing to the open-source market, we've been particularly keen to lead that market. Open source is an interesting space, as a whole. As the future unfolds, and the economics become clearer, there's going to be more commitment to open source by everybody...

It's so much relief to see a DB that is being widely used being (going to be?) made open-source.

Apache Derby is giving me lot of pains ...

Open Office goes online

OpenOffice.org is getting OpenOffice online. This is beta version and is reportedly done in association with a firm name Ulteo.

Now, the interesting thing is that, you will get full features of OpenOffice online with a desktop cum web look. However, collaboration capabilities are not available as of now, but they are in the right direction.

Read more here