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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. ISVs, or Independent Software Vendors, are businesses that develop and distribute software products to end-users. Consider Stax’s partner program.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. When you come up the stack a little bit, even inside of AWS, we use a specific set of EC2 instances. Who do we outsource to?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

So, our products and services are around how can we help companies utilize open source more effectively, more securely, more responsibly, as well as contribute. Not just rollout and onboarding, but then, what does success look like? And, how big a part of your business do you want that to be, do you want to be a services organization?