Getting the API right would be the only way a hosted CMS could acheive the flexibility that developers love about non-hosted platforms. This is so true! We've

Getting the API right would be the only way a hosted CMS could acheive the flexibility that developers love about non-hosted platforms. This is so true! We've also developed a SaaS CMS (decalcms.com - still pre-release) and one of the major things I've noticed while looking around at other hosted solutions is they all have a pretty sharp "cut-off" past which you just can't do what you need to. VerbCMS solves this by letting you run your own code on their servers which we didn't want to do because it makes things less secure. Webvanta solves this by just saying "we'll build it for you" but that's just not scalable at all. A cracking API and integration model is the only real way that a hosted CMS can become a serious "platform of choice" for a lot of web developers/designs/agencies.