Eweek’s coverage of VMWare’s anouncement of their new PAAS product caught my eye because of this well-stated analysis of the impact that PAAS (Platform As A Service) offerings such as Force.com have had on the business applications marketplace.
PAAS offerings have emerged as the modern solution to the changing nature of applications, increasing developer efficiency, while intelligently linking development frameworks and application services in an automated deployment environment, VMware said. PAAS solutions promise to let developers focus exclusively on writing applications, rather than configuring and patching systems, maintaining middleware and physical machines and worrying about network topologies.