{"id":1040,"date":"2008-01-17T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2008-01-17T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T03:11:48","slug":"a_little_too_mu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"A little too much aaS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started with SaaS, which was ok. Kind of sassy, in fact. At least it had symmetry. But the IT business, in its endless pursuit of the new buzzphrase, has to work every verbal angle to death. So we couldn&#8217;t stop with software-as-a-service. We had to have IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and, thanks at least in part to yours truly, HaaS (hardware as a service) and MaaS (media-as-a-service or malware-as-a-service, depending on whom you believe) and DMaaS (data-mining-as-a-service) and OSaaS (operating-system-as-a-service) and VaaS (virtualization-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) and FaaS (finance-as-a-service, or frameworks-as-a-service) and AaaS (architecture-as-a-service) and &#8230; etc. (Google this stuff if you don&#8217;t believe me.)<\/p>\n<p>Today, Salesforce svengali Marc Benioff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/01\/16\/saleforcecom-to-offer-daas-service-new-pricing-model-competition\/\">introduced<\/a> development-as-a-service, or DaaS. The only problem is that we already have at least three DaaSes: desktops-as-a-service, database-as-a-service, and data-as-a-service. That&#8217;s just too much. I mean, I like aaS as much as the next guy, but what we&#8217;re talking about here is aaS overkill. It has to stop.<\/p>\n<p>So count me out. I will no longer use aaS, in any configuration, on this blog. Join me, please, in this crusade. As Benioff might say, Death to aaS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with SaaS, which was ok. Kind of sassy, in fact. At least it had symmetry. But the IT business, in its endless pursuit of the new buzzphrase, has to work every verbal angle to death. So we couldn&#8217;t stop with software-as-a-service. We had to have IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and, thanks at least in part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}