Tag: Nick Carr

Apr 29 2008

McKinsey talks up SaaS again

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
29 April 2008

Management consultants McKinsey have again talked up the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) opportunity (see post, McKinsey surveys the new software landscape, by Nick Carr) – almost exactly a year since I last wrote about them in this context. Carr writes: … software-as-a-service is rapidly “becoming mainstream,” with three-quarters of software buyers saying they are “favorably disposed to adopting …

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Apr 07 2008

Information meltdown

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
7 April 2008

There’s been lots of talk about the credit crunch – now, techies are talking about the ‘broadband crunch’, apparently. Yesterday’s Observer newspaper had a feature, Video boom threatens to gridlock the internet, which said that “the amount of data travelling across the internet is growing so fast that the network could become overloaded and grind …