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In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods examines how the arrival of the next wave of distributed, open-source SaaS is likely to play out.

Woods compares the multitenant model with the newer distributed, open-source models for delivery of SaaS software, which he thinks will have a powerful impact. More »

This week in his JargonSpy column, Dan Woods says that currently, "much of the automation in virtualization technologies ignores the complexities of the applications."

Woods say that changing this won't be easy, but that "the IT departments and vendors who meet the challenge will open up a whole new world of flexibility and that goes far beyond what virtualization currently offers." More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods highlights two relatively new ways to make iPhone apps, approaches that simplify the app-making process for developers who aren't comfortable working with Objective C.

The first approach Woods mentions is with template-based systems, which "reduce the process of creating an iPhone app to a fill-in-the-blank process." More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods talks about a phenomenon that may be familiar to people who frequent social networking platforms: social media sock puppetry.

According to Woods, sock puppetry is when someone poses as someone other than themselves to give favorable ratings to an individual or company in order to increase the chances of those parties becoming successful with an endeavor or new product. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods starts off by saying that much of the analysis about SAP lately "has focused on the need for the software giant to regain a sense of excitement for its customers."

Woods says that it appears analysts are saying SAP should become the "New, New Thing," but he thinks SAP should stick to its guns, but also do these key things:

Reconfigure the customer experience; More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods starts off by saying that much of the analysis about SAP lately "has focused on the need for the software giant to regain a sense of excitement for its customers."

Woods says that analysts seem to be suggesting that SAP become the "New, New Thing," but Woods thinks SAP should stick to its gun, but do a few key things:

Reconfigure the customer experience; More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods starts off by saying that much of the recent analysis about SAP "has focused on the need for the software giant to regain a sense of excitement for its customers."

Woods says that analysts think that SAP should try to become the "New, New Thing." More »

This week's JargonSpy column mentions about a newish programming language that Dan Woods recently learned about at a New York CTO club meeting: Groovy, a "a Java-friendly language with many of the properties of Ruby and Python." More »