Taking the idea of leveraging other people’s resources to its logical extent, Intalio is launching an on-demand edition of its open source BPM offering. Intalio will be deploying its SaaS-based BPM offering using Amazon Web Services atop Amazon’s elastic compute cloud infrastructure. The offering will be available at $1500 per server, per month.

As we previously reported , it’s all about leverage. Intalio has been stitching together a best-of-breed BPM offering that ties with various other pieces, from JBoss as the appserver, to a choice of open source ESBs, content management, and systems management. Adding the Amazon compute cloud for a SaaS simply extends the best of breed concept. 

What this points to is that in an age of cloud computing and open source, the barriers to entry for software providers are far lower than they ever have been. When Salesforce.com brought hosted apps into the modern world, it did so by bootstrapping its own infrastructure. And although it hosts the App Exchange, when it comes to its core CRM solution, Salesforce built its own. Far less capitalized, Intalio is taking the virtual route that didn't exist back in 1999. And what it means for the software industry is that new players can more rapidly get to market because they no longer need to build all the pieces themselves.

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