Microsoft readies support for Software-as-Service
PC World | at | by Mike
Microsoft has consolidated some of its efforts to help Web hosting companies offer software-as-a-service into a new program tailored for offerings to independent software vendors.
The Microsoft SAAS Incubation Center Program is set to debut Monday. The program provides both infrastructure and services that Web-hosting companies can offer to ISVs to help them turn their applications into SAAS offerings, said Michael van Dijken, a marketing manager in Microsoft's communications division.
Microsoft already gives hosting companies infrastructure and services to help them offer SAAS enablement. The new program puts some of those offerings under one umbrella for Web hosters, and tailors them specifically to turning ISVs into SAAS providers, he said.