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Email ForresterEnd this madness: ban -as-a-service
For the sake of our sanity, we need to do away with this pernicious term
Published 16:05, 01 September 11
Guilty! You will find SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS terms in my past research documents and blog posts.
But I have decided to stop using the *-as-a-service moniker because it is a redundant pleonasm like horseless carriage, wireless phone and absolutely necessary - meaningless because it is excruciatingly redundant.
Does “as-a-service” merely mean that “it”:
- Resides in the cloud?
- Is pay-per-use?
Stop the insanity.
Join me in pledging to eliminate-as-a-service (EaaS) the *-as-a-service term. Darn. There I go again.
Posted by Mike Gualtieri
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