Rod Boothby makes a very interesting point:
"The personal server is actually not one dedicated machine. Instead it is a collection of services that end users select, run, customize and connect over time. Get a blog at wordpress.com, get a page at Facebook, another at LinkedIn, etc."
Rod thinks companies/teams/individuals will choose among endless varieties of hosted apps for whatever tasks at hand. These apps will be woven together by "new types of web services that take advantage of open APIs and deliver useful tools to support process integration".
He sees personal servers being delivered not by one single vendor, but through a "constantly evolving heterogeneous collection of services with open APIs and tied together by integration services".
Rod's vision makes more sense to me than the prevailing view among hosting providers that SaaS means creating islands on which applications they select run on their networks, are provisioned through their billing systems, and are supported by their staff. After all, no single company can keep track of every potentially useful tool on the market?
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