John Pallatto has been editor in chief of QuinStreet Inc.'s eWEEK.com since October 2012. He has more than 40 years of experience as a professional journalist working at a daily newspaper and computer technology trade journals. He was an eWEEK managing editor from 2009 to 2012. From 2003 to 2007 he covered Enterprise Application Software for eWEEK. From June 2007 to 2008 he was eWEEK’s West Coast news editor. Pallatto was a member of the staff that launched PC Week in March 1984. From 1992 to 1996 he was PC Week’s West Coast Bureau chief. From 1996 to 1998 he was a senior editor with Ziff-Davis Internet Computing Magazine. From 2000 to 2002 Pallatto was West Coast bureau chief with Internet World Magazine. His professional journalism career started at the Hartford Courant daily newspaper where he worked from 1974 to 1983.
The success of a few key Application Service Providers is nothing less than the crack of doom for the long-established model of selling enterprise software packages. In a few years the purchase of enterprise scale software packages could become as obsolete a business practice as employing squads of bookkeepers with eyeshades and paper ledgers to […]
The Application Service Provider sector hasnt exactly covered itself with glory over the past four years. There is a long, sad list of ASPs that have either failed or were bought out to avoid bankruptcy. But Salesforce.com has been a conspicuous exception because it has managed to slog through the tough times until it could […]
Those who say history never repeats itself are wrong – particularly when it comes to enterprise software. The Customer Relationship Management software sector is evolving in exactly the same way that every other software technology has over the past 25 years. Thats good news for customers, because more mature and battle-tested software is now available. […]