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Before Online Cloud software was introduced, programs 'ran on the computer' and were 'on the hard drive'. There were disadvantages, typically that only computers that had the software installed could run the programs; data and work was often stored to the hard drive. Users on holiday or away from home, could not easily access their work; various ways around this were tried, typically saving work to a CD, floppy disk, memory stick or DVD. Laptops and Learning about 'The Cloud' Laptops (portable computers) were initially expensive, however, many people who could afford one purchased one. They could take them wherever they were, at work, at home or on holiday. This worked well until the laptop was stolen, lost, had hard drive failure, a nasty virus, or was left on a train, in a taxi or even in a pub. Events like this made newspaper or TV headlines, e.g. in 2009, the BBC News said "Top Secret files left on a train". Now in 2012 just 3 years later, this sort of headline is now a thing of the past, our files and information are no longer carried around with us, we just 'use the cloud', even though many of us are unaware we are doing this. We have lots of easily accessible information in our e.mails; we sometimes attach files and can access these from any computer with an internet browser. This data is stored 'on the cloud' and not on our hardrive. This helps explain 'the cloud' part of Online Cloud Recruitment Software. All records, cv's, job vacancies, employers requirements and other data is accessible anywhere, with the same ease as reading our e.mails. The online software looks at this data, sorts through it and retrieves the data that has been requested. SaaS (Online software), explaining how it came into existence. The first desktop computers were used in offices. Typical programs on these were for wordprocessing or data, e.g. events, contacts, tasks, records, student records, personnel records, assets and more. These types of software were written in Visual Basic (VB). Microsoft access often stored the database on the computer where the program was installed, or for example, on a company or University server. The database could not be easily accessed with an internet browser. Early websites were written in HTML and were little more than a number of pages which could be seen when the user clicked on a button or tab. These pages were not interactive, however because they were hosted on a server, they could be easily accessed from any device with a browser e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera. Active Server Pages (ASP) made websites more interactive. Most of these (the active server pages) were written by programmers using VB Script; the same programmers that had written software using Visual Basic (VB). These programmers moved on from Active Server pages to 'Software as a Service', where their programs were now installed on the server. Users could now use online software whenever they want to, without needing to purchase and install the program on a hard drive. As with utility services, e.g. electricity, they only need to pay when they use the 'pay as you go' service. For all these reasons, Online Cloud Technology produces the best recruitment software. The author (Dave Hudson) is a former University Lecturer has written numerous articles on software. This is a second article in a series about online recruitment software.
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