We've always been fans of Salesforce.com and continue to be inspired by their relentless push to redefine the enterprise software landscape now with Platform as a Service (PaaS) as they have already done with SaaS. So it was with pleasure that I read Marc Benioff's guest post today on TechCrunchIT called Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center:
"Web 3.0 is about replacing existing software platforms with a new generation of platforms as a service... The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, and run in the cloud. When innovation is untethered from the time and capital constraints of infrastructure, it can truly flourish...
Amazon.com, Google, and salesforce.com have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build these infrastructures already, and a dozen others, including Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Rollbase, Longjump, Dabble db, Intuit, and Coghead, are also offering some form of platform as a service in the cloud."
Interestingly one reader posted a link to Eric Schmidt's response to "What is Web 3.0?" which demonstrates a nearly identical view from Google's perspective:
"I would tell you that its a different way of building applications... My prediction will be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications that are pieced together... applications are relatively small, data is in the cloud, applications can run on any device... very fast, very customizable... Thats a very different application model than we've ever seen in computing... likely to be very very large... new generation of tools being announced..."
At Rollbase our entire platform was conceived, architected and now continually improved upon with a similar vision in mind. Over the next several weeks we have some great new "Web 3.0" features to announce along with our first major Rollbase-native enterprise application that will be licensed separately from our standard PaaS plans.
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