I'm dying laughing here. I started answering phones for literally one of the very first web development companies in the world in 1994, in San Francisco. Worked in Silicon Valley in 2000 for a big named company. My manager's mentor left our big company to go work for this funny name sounding company called "Salesforce.com" in 2001. It was the stupidest name -- at the time. Salesforce was the first SaaS company (that I'm aware of - correct me if I'm wrong). SaaS means that software isn't loaded onto a company's own server, located in their 'server room' (air-conditioned room with tall stack of servers), onsite. The 'software' is hosted on Salesforce's servers, or Cloud...and you just access your info there. Only in the past 10 years have we moved to subscription based SaaS models. Two recruiters this week told me, "Oh, you've never worked in SaaS before". Or, "How long have you worked in SaaS?" LOL! Dude -- I've worked in SaaS since about 2004, when tech companies weren't physically installing and hosting their software physically at a client's office, LOL.
Rant - Two recruiters I met didn't understand what "SaaS" means
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