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Mar 2010
PaaS and the Cloud
In the space of only about three years, platform-as-a-service has come from nowhere to emerge as a popular approach for developing applications. PaaS providers deliver many of the building blocks for applications, such as data services, security, user interfaces and workflow engines, allowing developers to build the core function of the applications on top of this common foundation. The market is today dominated by two companies – salesforce.com, with its Force.com platform, and Google with its Google App Engine.
The dynamics of PaaS could change considerably over the next 12-18 months. Microsoft recently entered the space with its Windows Azure offering, and VMware is expected to launch its own offering later this year with the product of its SpringSource acquisition. Both are more likely to expand the existing market than cannibalize it.
This report examines the state of the PaaS market today, where it is going, what the most popular uses of PaaS will be, and what other software disciplines will be most impacted by PaaS.
(ICE clients can download this report by logging in on the left-hand side under the client access box)
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