Gianpaolo's blog
thoughts of a dotcom refugee happily expatriated at Microsoft
I'm Back!!! Well... sort of
Still not fully back on blogging quite yet (soon I promise). In the meantime, (if you want) you can...
Date: 03/30/2009
Crikey... I am moving to Australia
In a few weeks, I will be packing all my goods in Redmond and board a big Qantas Airbus A380 to...
Date: 12/03/2008
PDC is over, it was awesome! Now, off to Sydney
What a week at the PDC! With the CTP release Azure Services Platform I don't think that anyone is...
Date: 11/01/2008
Head in the cloud, Feet on the ground: an article about the cloud
My brother in arms Eugenio and I wrote an article a few weeks back discussing the opportunity that...
Date: 10/15/2008
Cloud Services Architecture symposium
As indicated in various press articles and blog entries in the recent weeks, PDC will be Microsoft's...
Date: 09/24/2008
So, I have been tagged...
Over the week end, my good buddy Vittorio a.k.a. the man who knows more about identity than it is...
Date: 09/16/2008
A little English lesson for cloud lingo lovers...
Being a non native English speaker I regularly make pronunciation or grammar mistakes and I usually...
Date: 09/02/2008
Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint
Although cloud storage fabrics are very cool, a lot of multi-tenant applications will be build...
Date: 08/25/2008
Software + Services for Architects Webcast
A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a webcast (~1hour) going through some of the architectural...
Date: 07/21/2008
I can't believe we are still talking about whether saas == multi-tenancy...
I was reading Why multi-tenancy matters and Many degrees of multi-tenancy today and honestly, I am...
Date: 06/20/2008
Cloudy Future for the Enterprise and most likely for ISVs too
As I mentioned previously, the study of clouds (cloud computing of course) is becoming a very...
Date: 06/19/2008
Nephologist: The Hottest Job in the Software Industry!
Nephology (from the Greek word nephos for 'cloud') is the study of clouds and cloud formation. It...
Date: 05/27/2008
You liked LitwareHR v1, You loved LitwareHR v2, You are going to die for LitwareHR 'cloud storage' edition :)
More seriously... Eugenio just announced and released on Codeplex the latest drop of LitwareHR....
Date: 05/06/2008
Consumerization of IT: an example
Over the last 2 years or so (here and here for example), I have been discussing how consumer grade...
Date: 03/27/2008
S+S Architecture Site on MSDN
Yesterday, we released (here) on the MSDN Architecture center a section dedicated to Software +...
Date: 02/15/2008
I think Phil drank the Kool-Aid too but he has not realized it yet :)
Phil believes that I did drink too much Kool-Aid. But after reading his post, it seems to me that we...
Date: 02/08/2008
S+S: Real or have I drunk too much Kool-Aid? :)
Readers of this blog must have seen that recently I have been spending quite some time discussing...
Date: 02/08/2008
LitwareHR v2 Webcast
Yesterday I recorded a 25min. walk through of litwareHR v2 (recording available here) Even though...
Date: 02/07/2008
An "S+S World"
Below is an diagram I have been using for a while in my presentations on software + services (more...
Date: 01/28/2008
Introducing Narumoto-san
Many of the readers of this blog also follow Fred's blog and Eugenio's blog. It is now time to add...
Date: 01/28/2008
Monetization: the next frontier of SaaS / S+S architecture
Over the week end, I was looking at AMZN DevPay announcement and I started thinking in more general...
Date: 01/18/2008
2008 the year of INTRAnet-SaaS / INTRAnet-S+S
In the next couple of days I might have fun again and offer my 10 or so 2008 predictions as I did in...
Date: 12/31/2007
FYI: my LinkedIn contact
In the last couple of weeks, I finally decided to create an account on Facebook and LinkedIn. (I...
Date: 12/31/2007
No Hobbits but great chat with Lukas
When I went to New Zealand I did not manage to see any hobbits but I had the pleasure to record an...
Date: 12/15/2007
More about S+S
I just got back from a 2 weeks tour in Australia and New Zealand discussing with a lot of ISVs,...
Date: 12/11/2007
LitwareHR v2: from SaaS to S+S
Unless you have been abducted by aliens a few months ago and just returned to earth I am pretty sure...
Date: 11/21/2007
ISVs are from Mars, and Hosters are from Venus
It took us a bit longer than expected, but our latest white paper is finally here! This white paper...
Date: 11/08/2007
Complexity does not go away, it just changes hands...
A law that I always found interesting in Physics is the the Lavoisier Law which states that the mass...
Date: 08/28/2007
Efficient Software Delivery through Service Delivery Platforms
Several weeks ago, we wrote a introductory article on service delivery platforms published in the...
Date: 07/05/2007
Intra-enterprise SaaS
Today, on his blog, Sinclair asks: Can the Fortune 500 Achieve Efficiency through Intra-enterprise...
Date: 07/04/2007
Either I don't get it or I'm calling (at least partial) BS on SaS 70
Please educate me on SaS 70 as either I don't get it or its importance is in my opinion overly...
Date: 06/30/2007
One for all, and all for one
From the left: eugenio, fred, me. Not sure why I am the fat one and by the way, Fred is way too tall...
Date: 06/28/2007
Phil on SaaS Appliance
I read with interest Phil's post on SaaS appliance and how a few companies are using this model for...
Date: 06/19/2007
Guess What? Fred's back!
After spending almost 2 months in China with our valiant Chinese colleagues, Fred is back to...
Date: 06/12/2007
Hosting LitwareHR
Eugenio spent the last couple of weeks exploring the implications of hosting LitwareHR on a...
Date: 06/11/2007
For Those Who Believe that the Browser is Good Enough
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know how much work we have put into efficient...
Date: 05/30/2007
Build - Run - Consume - Monetize
Build - Run - Consume - Monetize a.k.a BRCM (pronounced "breekam"?!) is a simple model that I am...
Date: 05/21/2007
My Wife is an Ecosexual...
I was browsing through Wired Magazine earlier this morning and I discovered that my wife is an...
Date: 05/18/2007
Pendulum
I was catching up on Phil's always excellent blog tonight and I smiled when I read about OpenSAM....
Date: 05/17/2007
Microsoft RPFBALOBNAIALLTACTIYJFUVSASFS
Eric Nelson one of Microsoft's SaaS experts in the UK, who apparently gave up being a developer :)...
Date: 05/17/2007
SaaS Undertakers do exist...
About one month ago, I blogged here about the need of "SaaS Undertakers" looking after the SaaS data...
Date: 05/15/2007
From High Margin-Low Volume to High Volume-Low Margin
If I was to summarize (simplify?!) the trend that is happening in the SaaS space, I would say that...
Date: 05/08/2007
SaaSCon Debrief
On April 17-18 I was in Santa Clara mingling with the international SaaS crowd at SaaSCon. There,...
Date: 05/01/2007
Desktop vs. Webtop panel at SIIA S4 Conference
Earlier this week, at SIIA S4 conference, I participated in a short panel, nicely moderated by...
Date: 04/23/2007
Recommendation: Add Eugenio's Blog to Your List
I mentioned just over a month ago that our SaaS architecture brainpower just increased with Eugenio...
Date: 04/20/2007
SaaS Undertaker ++
Richard Veynard responded to my SaaS undertaker tongue in cheek idea (previous post) by suggesting a...
Date: 04/16/2007
SaaS company biting the dust and idea for a new startup, I think :)
I am not sure the following email (forwarded to me yesterday which I edited to removed the company's...
Date: 04/15/2007