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Microsoft Tests SaaS

By David Worthington

February 8, 2007 —

Microsoft today will give software architects a candid look at the challenges it faced as it developed a software as a service (SaaS) platform reference application. The source code of the fictitious application, dubbed Litware HR, is available at CodePlex under Microsoft's Permissive License to demonstrate how to use the platform in the context of that application.

White papers and other bits of architectural prescriptive guidance on the key principles of SaaS were published a year ago on MSDN, and Microsoft says that Litware HR is the embodiment of that guidance. Going forward, the company will articulate how Microsoft engineers did what they did on its Skyscrapr community site. Gianpaolo Carraro, director of the solutions architecture group at Microsoft, explained the company's conviction, saying, "It is important to show the journey as well as to show the destination."

To that end, Microsoft is publishing the behind-the-scenes meetings, processes and artifacts that it used while fleshing out Litware HR in a series called "Architects in Action." The premise of the series is that it is possible to slay the "three-headed monster" Microsoft says haunts all SaaS ISVs: scalability, customization and multi-tenant efficiency.

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Web up, SCO Down in 2007 Eleven big trends dominated 2007, including the growing clash between REST and WS-*, the disappointing showing of Windows Vista against Mac OS X, and Hewlett-Packard emerging as a dominant player in software test.

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