Thirty years ago it was one of the great environmental issues, along with the hole in the ozone layer and CFC chemicals. Now acid rain may be making a comeback – but this time, there’s a change in the chemicals responsible.

Nitrogen emissions from motor vehicles and agricultural fertilisers, are combining with rain to produce nitric acid, and are starting to replace the sulphuric acid resulting from power-station emissions as a major source of the environmental scourge of the 1970s and 1980s, according to American experts. (Read on …)

Soft drink company Red Bull has been fined £271,800 (about $448,400) for failing to meet its requirements to recover and recycle packaging waste for eight years between 1999 and 2006, and for failing to register with the Environment Agency (EA) in London as a producer of packaging waste, reports Recycling and Waste Management News. In addition, the soft drink maker has to pay £3755 (about $6,195) in costs to the Environment Agency and compensation of £6854 (about $11,304). (Read on …)

A senior family planning official in China has warned that a child is born with physical defects every 30 seconds due to the country’s high levels of environmental pollution. (Read on …)

A Gartner forecast states that SaaS spending will more than double by 2012.
By Chris Kanaracus, Boston | Thursday, October 23 2008 (Read on …)

Managers are looking more closely at software-as-a-service as the number of unfinished IT projects grows, skilled workers become increasingly scarce, and upgrade and maintenance costs skyrocket.

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What’s all the buzz about Software-as-a-Service?  We’ve been in this space for almost four years, and the only thing that’s changed in the way we deliver our CS-VUE application is our logo.

We built CS-VUE on a rock solid linux platform back in late 2003.  Back then, Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (or LAMP) architecture was e-merging (sic).

So roll forward 48 months to October 2007 and - low and behold! – all that’s changed in our innovating, leading solution is the industry acronym “SaaS”!

There was a time when our application would be referred to as ASP (which had many faces: Application Server Protocol, Application Service Provider, Application … you get the point).

I read today that big guns are now touting SaaS as a real and dominant risk to their nice, tidy, stitched up product-licensed user base.

Here’s a case in point:-

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