Pre-SaaS Geek Dinner
Fergus Burns is organising a Geek Dinner next Wednesday evening at 8pm in the Market Bar. More details on the Web2ireland blog.
It’s a pre-SaaS event dinner … for anyone interested, Enterprise Ireland are running a Software-as-a-Service Event the next day in Dublin City Centre, kicking off at 8.00am - more info here - attendance is free.
Why are we interested in this? Well … SaaS is predicted to grow massively over the next few years as more and more software companies take advantage of the Internet as a delivery platform for applications. And of course ‘We Power the Internet’. Not universally true … but we do power businesses on the Internet.
We call ourselves an ‘Internet Infrastructure Provider’ which means we are the mechanism that powers SaaS applications - without hosting companies like us, software development companies would have to provide their own Internet connectivity - which I can tell you is expensive, especially if you want it to be resilient and redundant - which is hugely important for SaaS if sellers of this model want prospects to seriously consider it as a viable replacement for locally installed software.