A Little Too Much aaS

It started with SaaS, which was OK. Kind of sassy, in fact. At least it had symmetry. But the IT business, in its endless pursuit of the new buzzphrase, has to work every verbal angle to death. So we couldn’t stop with software-as-a-service. We had to have IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and, thanks at least in part to yours truly, HaaS (hardware-as-a-service) and MaaS (media-as-a-service or malware-as-a-service, depending on whom you believe) and DMaaS (data-mining-as-a-service) and OSaaS (operating-system-as-a-service) and VaaS (virtualization-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) and FaaS (finance-as-a-service, or frameworks-as-a-service) and AaaS (architecture-as-a-service) and … etc. (Google this stuff if you don’t believe me.)

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