Multi-tenant SaaS applications: Maintenance dream or nightmare?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 88-92

  Bezemer, Cor Paul ^a   Zaidman, Andy ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION COST; BUSINESS MODELS; CONFIGURABLE; DEDICATED SERVERS; ECONOMY OF SCALE; HARDWARE RESOURCES; MULTI TENANTS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE;

INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 78649986128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1862372.1862393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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