I started out 2013 working as an analyst focussed on cloud services, in general, and Platform as a Service, in particular. By the end of 2013, I am now the Strategy guy for OpenShift @ Red Hat focussing more on OpenShift platform. As I plot my way to keep the research community around Rishidot Research […]
Segmenting The PaaS Landscape: The S In PaaS
At the recent JavaOne conference panel, Sacha Labourey of CloudBees positioned themselves as the S in PaaS to distinguish themselves with other platforms represented in the panel (OpenShift, CloudFoundry, etc.). I think it is an argument gone stale. Especially, with the twitter snark hat on, I would say 2008 called and wants its Service in […]
Modular Architecture And Coopetition
Recently, I had a discussion on Twitter with my good friends from Apprenda, a PaaS vendor supporting .NET and Java, about a blog post they published. In the blog post, Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda, has argued that a vendor who has had success in the app server market cannot effectively offer a PaaS solution with a […]