Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Lumen: Open source SaaS
Lumen: Open source SaaS
April 03, 2007, Matt Asay
Matt has a brief note at this post about Lumen, an open source SaaS platform.
He says, "Microsoft talks about Windows Live Core. Salesforce talks about Apex. But PHP applications are out there and making browsers sing right now, every day, all day. Applications are obviously moving to the web (whether as SaaS or some other trendy word). Lumen is a new entrant into the market with a free PHP app server that is used to make commercial and open source SaaS (web applications)"...
And Matt quotes from Lumen's press release, "Lumen's SaaS platform is in use by more than 200 commercial customers with over 150,000 users of on-demand applications....Lumenation is the industry's first PHP platform to focus on SaaS developers, making PHP an effective alternative to proprietary SaaS development platforms such as Saleforce's AppSpace and Microsoft's Live Core...."
Open source software moving into applications has been a hotly discussed topic of late with folks even coming up with open source ERP (though SAP thinks it is not that easy), so it will be very interesting indeed to easy where open source SaaS goes...
One naturally wishes the best for Open Source apps, unless of course the one happens to be from Microsoft, SalesForce or SAP!
Read the full blog post of Matt Asay's here at his Open Sources blog @ InfoWorld
April 03, 2007, Matt Asay
Matt has a brief note at this post about Lumen, an open source SaaS platform.
He says, "Microsoft talks about Windows Live Core. Salesforce talks about Apex. But PHP applications are out there and making browsers sing right now, every day, all day. Applications are obviously moving to the web (whether as SaaS or some other trendy word). Lumen is a new entrant into the market with a free PHP app server that is used to make commercial and open source SaaS (web applications)"...
And Matt quotes from Lumen's press release, "Lumen's SaaS platform is in use by more than 200 commercial customers with over 150,000 users of on-demand applications....Lumenation is the industry's first PHP platform to focus on SaaS developers, making PHP an effective alternative to proprietary SaaS development platforms such as Saleforce's AppSpace and Microsoft's Live Core...."
Open source software moving into applications has been a hotly discussed topic of late with folks even coming up with open source ERP (though SAP thinks it is not that easy), so it will be very interesting indeed to easy where open source SaaS goes...
One naturally wishes the best for Open Source apps, unless of course the one happens to be from Microsoft, SalesForce or SAP!
Read the full blog post of Matt Asay's here at his Open Sources blog @ InfoWorld
Labels: applications, php, saas
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