SaaSaaP, an acronym I came up with before reading about Appliance-based Software Delivery (AbSD) (here, here, here) is, what I believe to be the next step in the evolution of SaaS (or just application delivery in general). SaaSaaP / AbSD involves taking the SaaS hosted in the datacenter and placing it behind the corporate firewall, essentially turning your software service model into a product model (see: Google Search Appliance)

The availability of good virtualization technology can allow a SaaS company to make the jump from a SaaS to appliance-based delivery very straightforward. Additionally SaaS companies should evaluate whether their applications have opportunities that can be better realized behind the corporate firewall. Besides, SaaS is the analogue to what software hosted on mainframes were many decades ago, and as history is known to repeat itself, SaaSaaP would be the next step in the evolution of software delivery, except this time you get the computing platform and the software packaged all bundled into one efficient appliance, instead of a PC and a CD and the need to run setup.exe

Oh yeah, and Cisco just validated Appliance-based Software Delivery with its purchase of IronPort for $830 million.

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