April 25, 2008

Platform-as-a-Service filed under: the net is the platform — Martin @ 2:36 am

I’m dizzy – exciting and important news come in too fast. The major internet and tech companies fight for the next big thing on the Internet: Platform-as-a-Service, in short PaaS. In other terms: who will provide the standard for an “Internet Operating System” (for consumer applications; business applications are a different battleground)?

• Microsoft Live Mesh
  
• Google AppEngine
  
• Amazon AWS
  
• Yahoo
• Facebook
• MySpace Apps
  

I don’t know and I don’t want to guess … you?

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5 comments »

1. Hey, Martin!

   You could also count small PaaS startups like MorpheXchange.com. In fact, despite the hoopla over the big boys entries, these startups have innovated and led current platform infrastructure items which the big boys may end up adopting or using as pattern.

   Do check ‘em out and test deploy a Rails app to find out more.

   Best.
   alain

   comment by friarminor — April 29, 2008 @ 11:38 pm

2. Hey Alain,

   Thanks for your comment! You’re right. I only mentioned the big ones. I’m sorry, but I know only the big ones. I’m not an expert in this area.

   But: big also means inflexible and so maybe the small ones will dominate the PaaS market. Let’s see!

   Martin

   comment by Martin — April 30, 2008 @ 6:52 am

3. Hi,

   I was wondering if anyone has tried PerfectMind platform as a service yet? It’s in beta right now and is a completely customizable platform in the cloud with all of the tools and resources developers need to create on demand applications.

   I ask because I want some feed back and would love to know what developers experienced while using the WPF development interface? I’ve been doing a lot of reading about PaaS providers and have yet to see any others that allow the integration of third party applications and services, which is an advantage over other providers (Rollbase, LongJump etc.)

   Let me know if you guys test it out, I will be in the next few days.

   http://www.perfectmind.com/

   comment by Darren P — October 14, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

4. Hi Darren,

   Thanks for your comment. No, we didn’t know PerfectMind yet. Maybe we evaluate someday. At the moment we are busy with targeting just one platform! :)

   Best regards

   Martin

   comment by Martin — October 14, 2008 @ 7:53 pm

5. Hi Martin,

   Thanks for the reply, please reply if you do evaluate PerfectMind someday soon, as I’d love to know what others think about the PaaS.

   comment by Darren P — October 16, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

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