Sun Let's Software Vendors Run SaaS Without Code Rewrites
Andy Patrizio reports for InternetNews.com on a new offering from Sun Microsystems that will allow software vendor’s customers to convert from an on premise version of their application to SaaS using existing technologies. The good news is that this conversion can be done without rewriting code, which in some cases can take many engineers an inordinately long period of time to design and then test the new architecture. This is all made possible through Sun’s new “virtualization service”. Sun or a Sun partner will then host the application. Of course the service only “supports applications hosted on a Sun server using Solaris, Solaris' Containers virtualization technology and xVM, Sun's virtualization software.”
The advantage to this service was explained by Vince Vasquez, business development manager for SaaS programs at Sun:
"People see the demand for on-demand but they are stuck with a year or more of development time without actually knowing if there's a market there for their product. With virtualization, they can get into that market right now."
If this is of interest, I strongly recommend reading Patrizio’s article entitled, Sun Latest to Help App Vendors Get 'SasSy'. In it Patrizio reports on the success to date of this service with a case study and also discusses pricing and Sun’s 90-day free trial offer.
