Software as a Service using SOA

Salesforce.com has built an amazing platform and its true you can really build out some amazing software as a service platform - but for the average 10 to 300 employee company the costs are still too high for this type of solutions provider....

Hmmm! could there be a provider who can do the same for a lot cheaper price point? How about taking open source software and creating a master plan to architect an integration model to get the most powerful yet close to free solution as possible...

Opps ... I said Free, ok that's really not true because you really get what you pay for. It would likely be a lot cheaper than salesforce.com - could it work?

Well we are going to try it out...we will soon launch a large file transfer web services platform. If that works well...then we will launch and e-mail marketing platform...and keep adding to this group of web based applications as open source, close to freeware as possible.

Stay tuned..

Thanks,
AS