Phil Wainewright over at ZDNet is left ‘speechless’ at an ‘all-you-can-eat’ SaaS offering from Extrasys. I, fortunately, am not so afflicted. In Martin Veitch’s original posting over at IT Week,
“It doesn’t matter how legacy your application is, it can still be brought into the hosted environment,” said Jaydeep Korde, Extrasys business unit director.
This may be true at a technical level but is utter nonsense at the business level. Martin reports this company has signed SAP, Siebel, Sage and Microsoft Office. Signing and delivery are two different things. There’s a long history of failure using Citrix (Extrasys pitch). This is not SaaS as I understand it. Instead it’s an ill-conceived cost play which will be exposed the minute customers attempt to figure a TCO model.
By the way claiming ‘revolution’ as Extrasys does is a very dangerous play.
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