Cloud computing brings developers to the people [Video]

In the world of cloud computing, some very innovative offerings have flown under the hype radar. An example of this is Intuit’s launch of an open source community for developers interested in creating online applications. In essence, it’s a community for building and deploying cloud-based software for fun and/or profit, aimed at the small business.

The reality is that SaaS, while being widely adopted now by the larger enterprises and governments, had initial success within the world of small business. If you can’t afford a datacenter or even a few servers, SaaS was a logical option, and guys like Intuit, Salesforce.com, and other older SaaS players had their initial success within small business. Indeed, cloud computing today, while on the lips of almost every Global 2000 company and most government agencies, is finding the most success within small business where the value is almost always there.

The Intuit communityallows developers to work with Intuit and others to build and …