Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

Lumen Software is hoping to tap enterprises and software developers interested in taking an open source slant on the emerging software-as-a-service model. The company is offering up its Lumenation ...

‘Our SaaS Factory Team, through their hundreds of partner engagements, have learned a lot of best practices,’ says Doug Yeum, AWS’ head of worldwide channel and alliances. ‘They’ve taken those best ...

The promotion of Bob Muglia to a President's position (in the mix to succeed current CEO Steve Ballmer) may prove to be the smartest move Microsoft has made against open source in a long time. First, ...

SaaS has become an integral part of the delivery and consumption of software. But. SaaS companies are no different than any other open source consumer. They initially use the software because it's ...

AWS announced today that it's releasing a tool called AWS SaaS Boost as open source distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool, which was first announced at the AWS re:Invent conference last ...

"As the community of SaaS users increases, along with the emergence of associated application-platform-as-a-service providers' open-source-type practices, application exchange will continue to grow," ...

There has been a bit of debate lately over which is more important for the cloud, open standards or open source. As part of a guest blog post I wrote over on Secure Cloud Review on open source ...

Low cost and flexibility make open source a perfect fit for SaaS infrastructure, and analysts expect to see open-source dominance in the field within three years Open source will start to dominate ...

Just when I finished writing about how open source licenses have little to say about SaaS, along comes Lumen with an open source SaaS platform. Microsoft talks about Windows Live Core. Salesforce ...