Qualys CEO on SaaS and Cloud Computing

Philippe Courtot, CEO of Qualys, recently penned a nice piece on SaaS and cloud computing for IT Advisor, the official journal of the UK’s National Computing Centre. IT Advisor is not widely distributed in the States, so I thought I’d give it a mention here.

Outlook Increasingly Cloud-y: Salesforce Blows Out Its Numbers, But that’s Not the Big Story

I am still a little uncertain why the news didn’t cause a bigger stir in the financial press or tech blogosphere. Maybe it’s the time of year. August market doldrums, end of summer languor. But last Thursday, Salesforce.com reported that it had crushed its numbers for its Second Fiscal Quarter ending in July. And not just in terms of one or two key financial reporting items. No, the company had exceeded consensus expectations for nearly every major financial metric.