CollabNet Team Edition
CollabNet, the company we founded six years ago with Brian Behlendorf to build tools to support open-source style collaborative development processes, just announced their first on-demand software offering, CollabNet Team Edition. The company's had a lot of success in enterprise software sales, but this is the first time they've tried a salesforce.com-style web application offering.
In all my talks about Web 2.0, I've been saying that google, amazon, eBay and the like tell us a more general story about the future of software. So far, the big wins (apart from salesforce.com) have been consumer-facing web applications. But increasingly, enterprise software is going the same route: customer self-service. The question is, do companies understand what makes these kinds of applications work? In the first generation of on-demand software, there were a lot of missteps. But the trend is definitely re-emerging.
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Samuel [08.04.05 08:37 AM]
If you find the $65/user/month a bit steep you could try Projxpert.
I've been using it for a while now. They offer a similar service: Subversion, issue tracking, discussion forums, etc.
Their approach is a bit different. You get the first fully fuctional project for free. You upgrade for more more diskspace and more projects.
Probably the best bit is that there are no limits to the number of team members your projects can have, so you don't get bitten as your team grows.
Sam.