A few weeks ago came the news that VMware, already well established as the poster child of enterprise server virtualisation, was extending its reach down into the small and medium-sized business world. There is a sub-text to this announcement, however, that opens up the world of Software as a Service (SaaS), not only to the small business user but also to their enterprise equivalent

At a time when much of the technology of the infrastructure is, in effect, a `done deal