by Eric Knipp | May 20, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Large enterprises are very interested in the PaaS value proposition, but much less interested in making strategic commitments to public PaaS. This is generally true of public cloud overall. Only in the SaaS area do we see substantially less durdling by our enterprise clients. My working theory is that this is mostly because popular SaaS options [...]
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by Eric Knipp | October 9, 2012 | 14 Comments
PaaS reduces the incremental cost of a custom application. Because demand for custom applications is elastic with respect to price, maturation and proliferation of PaaS will drive growth in custom application development. The Debate. I’ve been engaged in a discussion with a colleague about the relative importance of application development vs. application delivery. This might [...]
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by Eric Knipp | March 6, 2012 | 3 Comments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced yet another cut in its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) pricing (it also announced cuts in select PaaS capabilities, including the relational database service). I’ve been telling Gartner clients for years that this will never stop. Amazon.com is a retailer and at its core, AWS is a retail business. It is a mistake to look [...]
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by Eric Knipp | February 15, 2012 | Comments Off
Cloud computing has become an important element of every enterprise IT provider’s business strategy and it is long past time to treat “a cloud [as] water vapor,” as Oracle CEO Larry Ellison famously said in 2009. Even Oracle is now well-entrenched in the cloud war through both acquisition and internal initiatives. Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and [...]
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by Eric Knipp | February 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Differentiation is important, but execution is everything.
Category: Cloud Application Platforms Tags: cloud computing, execution, olympics
by Eric Knipp | September 16, 2009 | Comments Off
What were the skies like when you were young? Today we’ve published our most extensive work thus far profiling the providers of Cloud Application Platforms. Our research includes forty companies, all of which deliver some type of platform enabling development of Web applications using a Cloud Computing model. A few weeks ago I blogged that [...]
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Category: Cloud Application Platforms Tags: aPaaS, cloud computing, seap
