Here’s a selection of videos about SaaS, or software as a service (aka software on demand) – a new way for individuals and corporations to ‘consume’ software, whether it’s Web 2.0 Internet software or traditional software.

First an overview of what SaaS is:

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGUPSvswmY0]

Jim Steele of Salesforce and Marc Lautenbach of IBM @ a conference (crappy quality of the video, but listen to what’s being said by Steele, pretty interesting):

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=dyO6d1y7C9U]

Interesting thoughts by Scott Maxwell of Boston-based venture capital firm OpenView Venture Partners who claims SaaS should be renamed xaaS or zaaS.

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=_hGRw5TtxqY]

About one month ago, I felt I had to try this new Q&A feature on LinkedIn and asked to the community a question that resulted close to this: “Hey guys, I’m having a hard time writing a blogpost that lists all possible software business models. I need you help!“.

I actually collected pretty valuable answers from a number of people whom I would like to thank in this post: Doug Houseman of Cap Gemini; Camille Espanol of Cataphora; Marc Aniballi of Crack Method; David Keene of SAP UK; Rahul Sharma of Tech Mahindra; Les DeGrof of Entelos; Daniel Weisman of GMAC Mortgage; Charles-Henri Schulz of OpenOffice.org.

The qualifications of the people who answered me are simply amazing. I believe LinkedIn does a very good job at creating auto regulated communities built on trust & expertise sharing – a little bit like eBay’s ranking system.

I recommend you have a look at my question and the very interesting answers I got (both thoughts and materials I should read). It’s all there.