The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service

Linda Lane

Martin Campbell-Kelly

May 1, 2009

The commercial opportunities of software as a service are widely hyped these days and many think SaaS is the future of software. That might be true in the medium term, but the volatile history of remote computing shows that one cannot be sure the trend will last indefinitely.

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