(Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. ISVs generally create application software rather than system software such as operating systems and database management systems. Contrast with IHV.
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- Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?
- Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplace
- SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplaceJose CarlosPhill is it saasplaza what we called ASP some years ago? For what I understand they give a platform for saas development companies host their applications in Saasplaza.Thanks you http://softwareyservicio.wordpress.comIt's a rangeSaaSplaza offers a range of hosting options, from ASP to full multitenancy, depending on...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Intuit enters the PaaS wars
- The key to the success of a platform is establishing a virtuous circle of eager customers and willing developers. The technology is just the starting point. You need enough customers to create a market for the add-ons and applications developers create. It's even more important to get developers enthused about...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- How PaaS pulls software pricing down
- Platform-as-a-service startup Bungee Labs this week released a new utility pricing model that really starts to put the spotlight on the pricing charged by established software-as-a-service providers. Bungee also announced what it calls 'federated hosting', which gives customers the choice of where to host their Bungee-developed applications; with Bungee in...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux market?
- Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux market?Choice is the under-pin of capitalismSo the choice stops any one of these companies getting too Microsoftish.As far as support goes, if somebody cannot readily hop between an apt or rpm based system then they shouldn't be...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Squaring the cloud
- Hosting your application in the cloud got a lot easier yesterday — but there are still some gaps to fill for hosted application providers. Referring to Amazon's introduction of persistent storage volumes to its EC2 cloud computing service, Rightscale CEO Thorsten Von Eicken declared "clearly the cloud has just squared...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Why OS X costs twice as much as Windows
- Why OS X costs twice as much as WindowsMore Closed??Nearly half of OSX is all open source. Freely available for download, including the code. The *ONLY* proprietary part is the GUI that lies on top, and a few key underpinnings such as Core technologies (CoreGraphics, CoreVideo, etc). Now when you...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBCEnglish pleaseWhen something/someone gets notice it is told to quit what this writer means is "got noticed".Please can we have these items in English not some 3rd grader's perception of the languageRE: Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Microsoft partners with open source JasperSoft, Sourcesense
- Microsoft and JasperSoft are working together to ensure that Jasper's business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Apple and Business — Is it 25 Years Too Late?
- Hey, Apple's releasing the Insanely Great iPhone SDK so we can all write enterprise iPhone applications! They're going to make the iPhone compete with the BlackBerry and hook it up to corporate Exchange email servers! Whoopee! Apple has a Business strategy! Oy vey. Look,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- A plethora of PaaS options
- A plethora of PaaS optionsApple and Oranges Compliment One AnotherGreat piece that gets beneath the oversimplification that often 'clouds' the discussion. ISV needs are definitely different than the enterprise. We are big fans of several platforms including Force.com (http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/02/may-force.php) and Amazon Web Services. In fact Appirio has...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- The ZEN of PlateSpin
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Dan Kusnetzsky this morning addresses the organizational challenges of Novell integrating virtualization ISV PlateSpin into its culture. While I agree any acquisition of any type has organizational challenges, I think Novell has already shown it can take a company with a radically different corporate culture, SuSE, and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- SaaS and the global virtual stack
- When people argue that SaaS is just another deployment option for software, they really are missing the bigger picture. It's as hopeless as a carriage-builder in the early 20th century saying that using motors instead of horses is just another locomotion option for carriages. It ignores the wider revolution that's...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?clarificationPlatespin was founded in 2000 and the technology was created by an innovative group of six people, myself, Mark Verdun, David Richards, Bruno Baloi, Simon Howard and Dave Campbell.Be ware, the innovative spirit left Platespin long ago in 2002 just after...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch point
- LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch pointWhy?I mean there are what, a couple hundred ways to get video and music on a PC? Sounds like a solution looking for a problem.RE: LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch pointdid you mean OEM or ISV Mary Jo?I did a video interview and demo...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Updated: Red Hat launches JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, 3 new open source projects
- Red Hat announced a fully integrated SOA platform combining JBoss middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and launched three new open source projects. Due by the end of February, the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is a subscription-based offering that incorporates the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Android%3A+It%27s+real%21
- Android%3A+It%27s+real%21It looks like Android is going to explode on the market place. SmallChinese companies and others will be looking for a brand to put on their phones to get recognition. Being able to sell as a Google Android vs just being a generic smart phone, is a HUGE benefit....
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- SaaS hoster OpSource buys billing partner
- Specialist SaaS hoster OpSource today has announced the acquisition of SaaS billing vendor LeCayla Technologies. OpSource has a number of partners that offer services to its customers, some of them integrated into its real-time service bus — including Aria Systems, another billing vendor — but this is the first time...
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Taking SaaS to market: a European perspective
- I was in Frankfurt, Germany, earlier today, attending the opening sessions of the European ISV Convention, which is organized by the folks at IT Europa. Inevitably, SaaS is a hot topic here just as it is for ISVs in the US, and one of the big unanswered questions is, what's...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source mission
- In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
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