Enterprise Content Management company Digitech Systems says it has conducted a survey of VARs on the topics of SaaS and ECM, and came away with some counterintuitive findings, according to an e-mail from one of the company's public-relations representatives.

According to the e-mail, those findings include:

"Resellers are NOT selling more SaaS in the down economy."

"iPhone Applications are hot and resellers believe that end users are interested in using them in their business."

"Resellers believe that end users will purchase more technology that proves ROI and helps them do more with less." (Again, the "more with less" theme steps forward.) Complete data from Digitech wasn't immediately available.

While SaaS is a hot topic of conversation, this isn't the first batch of research to show it's not translating into hard sales for the industry. As we saw earlier this year, Forrester Research found that three out of four enterprises either had no idea what cloud computing was, or they couldn't afford it, or they didn't want it.

From your perspective, are there any signs that Software-as-a-Service or cloud computing are gaining any hard, real-world momentum or are we still in a hype cycle?