The combination of the software-as-a-service model and Web-hosting providers could give users a safe, sometimes low-cost and low-risk way to jumpstart Webcasting initiatives.
The emergence of software-as-a-service is posing both new opportunities and challenges that Microsoft and numerous other software vendors tried to address with new strategies and products detailed this week at HostingCon 2007 conference in Chicago. The conference focused on Web-hosting and the rapidly growing software-as-a-service market, with about 40 sessions that ran from Monday to Wednesday.