by Curt Franklin

A service-oriented Test Center Tracker

analysis
Apr 8, 20082 mins

It's Tuesday in the Test Center, and there's a wealth of blogging on services of one sort or another. There are services from large to small, internal to external -- it's just a service-oriented world out there. Google leads Salesforce in SaaS: Ephriam Schwartz looks at the SaaS battle between Google and Salesforce.com and sees the advantage in nearly every category going to Google. Google, he says, has the tech

It’s Tuesday in the Test Center, and there’s a wealth of blogging on services of one sort or another. There are services from large to small, internal to external — it’s just a service-oriented world out there.

Google leads Salesforce in SaaS: Ephriam Schwartz looks at the SaaS battle between Google and Salesforce.com and sees the advantage in nearly every category going to Google. Google, he says, has the technology, the cash, and (most important) the strategic vision to be the same sort of giant in services that they’ve been in search. Is this good news? It depends, as so much does, on whether you’re a customer or a competitor…

Social services?: David Linthicum has been reading press releases from vendors, and has seen an interesting approach from IBM: SOA as dating service. Big Blue wants to help publishers and builders of different services find one another so they can play nicely together — ideally, in IBM’s SOA sand box. No word, yet, on whether you have to share your favorite band and what you’re doing every waking moment in order to be truly popular.

The criminals find services:  Criminal minds are unlikely to let any good idea go un-exploited, and Matt Hines is looking at criminal elements who are getting in on software as a service — for malware. Criminal hackers aren’t known for their cooperative mindset, but SaaS lets them build on existing code and turn their real efforts to the creative part of the venture — the creative part that makes sure life will be difficult for the rest of us.