ZD Net has the following article predicting the demise of SaaS in two years. For those of you who do not know, SaaS is Software as a Service, a la Salesforce.com. We at Junction Networks use Salesforce.com and I love it. Anywhere I go, home office, NYC office, iPhone, I can get salesforce.com status. The same for gmail (who handles our corporate e-mail). It's the 'access it anywhere' model that makes SaaS such a success. As computers become more and more mobile, think iPhone, the business user is going to want even more software as a service. I can't image having to load software on every device I may want to use across three or more different operating systems just to get at the information I need. VOIP is increasingly becoming SaaS. Our own OnSIP Hosted PBX is one such example. Regardless of location, you can access your OnSIP account via a browser and the SIP phone calls are accessible via any SIP device anywhere. The reasons SaaS will remain are two-fold. One, the internet is more capable to handle high bandwidth applications such as large data transfers and multi-media traffic like YouTube and VOIP. Secondly, devices are becoming ever more powerful, smaller and more portable. More bandwith plus mobile computing is a the perfect recipe for SaaS. As a software-on-cd provider, are you really going to port your interface to the iPhone or the Zone or the Dare or whichever new mobile device comes to conquer the world? The answer is a SaaS model where the software lives in the cloud and is accessible via any WWW browser anywhere. The indicators for SaaS show no signs of stopping, so, in my opinion, the rumors of SaaS' demise are greatly exaggerated.