Z:gnu-www-ja-who-does-that-server-really-serve--93adc9-Service as a Software Substitu/en

Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS) means using a service as a substitute for running your copy of a program. Concretely, it means that someone sets up a network server that does certain computing tasks&mdash;for instance, modifying a photo, translating text into another language, etc.&mdash;then invites users to do computing via that server. A user of the server would send her data to the server, which does her own computing on the data thus provided, then sends the results back to her or acts directly on her behalf.