Newsletter Issue 4

Dear IT# reader

Many apologies for the failure to bring you last month’s newsletter. This month we focus on an alternative way of delivering software to users known as Software-as-a-Service abbreviated to SaaS. We have feature on new technology, where we look at the Blu-Ray discs, what these are and their impact in our everyday life.For more information please visit our blog on http://blog.spectrumits.com/

Software as a Service

Following up on an article that we did in our first issue of the newsletter on Web 2.0, I have decided to go a step further and try to explain the software delivery behind it all. Web 2.0 applications are based on a model known as Software as a Service (SaaS). This is a delivery model where a vendor develops a web-native application and hosts and operates the application for use by its customers over the internet. A user will not pay for owning the software but for using it
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A Sampling Of SaaS

Hosted software offerings are taking root across the manufacturing business model.
By Brad Kenney
Sept. 1, 2007 — The SaaS “software delivery service” has so many potential business advantages that on-demand applications are appearing across the manufacturing business model, coming from companies as small as startups all the way up to the sluggers of the software field.
Here’s just a few of the companies involved in making your life easier, and their current on-demand offerings.
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Introducing the next generation of optical disks: “The Blu-ray Disc”

Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage media format. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage. The disc has the same dimensions as a standard DVD or CD.
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