Latest News from Lars Leckie

Hummer Winblad Principal Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST

In a recent report, Gartner made some bold predictions around the near-term future of SaaS. In essence they are endorsing that the SaaS model has increasing leverage over existing software models as the IT spending tightens - worldwide software-as-a-service revenue in the enterprise application market is on pace to surpass 2007 sales by 27% and to more than double by 2012.

Virtualization, SOA, and the Rise of Social Media

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:30:00 EDT

At Hummer Winblad we often joke that we focus on the "boring side of software." By this we mean that many of our companies tend to be described with words like core, infrastructure, B2B, backend, etc. We believe that these companies provide the infrastructure under which the next generations of software are built. They will be interesting and successful companies but it is unlikely your mom will ever know their names.