where I compare SAAS to something

You know what? All these Software-as-a-Services (and just web services) are the new UNIX way.

Take, for example, tools for developers. They do one thing well and use each other. Log management app Papertrail uses Tender for support which sends transactional email with Postmark. Doesn’t that remind you of something? That’s just like mutt uses vim for text editing which uses par for word wrapping (with my settings, of course).

Could that be influenced by the fact that web services run on UNIX? Why not. That, too, reminds me of something. Most Mac apps have good user interfaces because the system’s UI is good. Mac app developers care about UI because Mac OS was made with a lot of UI care. And there are Human Interface Guidelines behind it.

Like there is a philosophy behind UNIX.