Software-as-a-Service is touted as the Next Big Thing.  But can the delivery channel (the Internet) cope?  In his recent article “[1] The Internet sky really is falling“, the president of Nemertes Research argues that “For service providers, the Internet is about to become a lot more expensive to deploy and operate; for users, the Internet is about to become a lot less reliable and a lot more expensive (and balkanized). It gets worse: There’s no clear fix. Next-generation Internet projects have come and gone over the years, with little real success. Several projects are underway, but they’re nowhere near complete — and there’s no consensus that any of them will actually work”.