Wife: You've been staring at that screen for ages. What are you doing?
Me: Thinking about writing a post on SaaS.
Wife: On what?
Me: Software As A Service.
Wife: Is that what you were telling me about the other day? Service-oriented thingy?
Me: Service-oriented Architecture. Yeah, it's similar, but instead of little services which you can use to build your program, you get a whole program as a service. Imagine Excel on the internet - or the "cloud" as it's being called - you don't have to install it on your computer, you just go on the internet to use it.
Wife: The internet? Isn't that slow?
Me: It can be, so you need to be careful what kind of programs you do this with. For instance, there's a company called SalesForce who offer a Customer Relationship Management program via SaaS. Companies use it because it saves them having to install and manage lots of computers to put this big program on.
Wife: Interesting...
Me: Are you being sarcastic again?
Wife: No, not at all. I'm just wondering if they do HaaS?
Me: What?
Wife: Husband As A Service. I still need that light upstairs fixed.