{"id":627,"date":"2008-07-22T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2008-07-22T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:00:02","slug":"paas-software-vendors-ticket-to-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/paas-software-vendors-ticket-to-on-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"PaaS: Software Vendors&#039; Ticket to On-Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a metered on-demand infrastructure designed to host on-demand applications. &#8220;The <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Plaform as a Service\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platform_as_a_service\">PaaS <\/a>model makes all of the facilities required to support the end-to-end life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available from the Internet &#8212; with no software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users. It&#8217;s also known as cloudware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why PaaS?  Why is it becoming popular?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decent web-based are becoming competitive to traditional desktop alternatives, like Microsoft&#8217;s Office products.  Web apps like Google Apps, 30boxes, ThinkFree and Zoho have proved themselves to be effective and available whenever you are on-line.<\/li>\n<li>With the entry and success of the SaaS model, momentum has grown for vendors of all sizes to make their applications available on-demand.<\/li>\n<li>PaaS is more cost effective for small software vendors to seek out and partner with infrastructure providers when deploying their applications on-demand.  Infrastructure providers have seen the need and have responded by building platforms that provide turn-key solutions to things like collaboration, multi-tenancy, concurrency, scalability, storage, failover and security<\/li>\n<li>Vendors also see cost reductions from from being able to directly access higher level programming abstractions that allow for the rapid creation services, user interfaces and other application elements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fpaas-software-vendors-ticket-to-on-demand%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" 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