Microsoft rewriting applications for hosted offerings
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Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to offer them in a hosted fashion, an executive said on Tuesday.
In order to efficiently host applications for customers, Microsoft must support multitenancy, which means that a hosted service provider can run one instance of the software, managing it as a single entity even though it serves multiple customers.
"One big fallacy is that you can take an application architected for one-to-few delivery and call it one-to-many," said Tim O'Brien, senior director of platform strategy for Microsoft, speaking to reporters at the software maker's headquarters in Redmond, Wash.