rPath Press Release: False Promise of PaaS and Impact on Businesses
To add context to the discussion and why I perceive rPath’s use of the term PaaS is actually a misuse of the term, I am posting a press release I got from them on May 9th 2012 with the above title and the content below. ################################################################## Is PaaS (Platform as a Service) an all-encompassing solution [...]
SAP’s SuccessFactors Acquisition: The PaaS Angle
The world went crazy last weekend when SAP (previous CloudAve coverage) made an announcement about their intent to acquire SuccessFactors (previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based Human Capital Management provider, for approximately $3.4 Billion. SAP, being very late to the cloud game and after few missteps, seems to be taking the acquisition as a fast [...]
The InfoWorld 2009 Technology of the Year Awards
InfoWorld announced the winners of the 2009 Technology of the Year Awards in Applications, Middleware, and Data Management: The Awards are presented in a slideshow format, and InfoWorld made it almost unreadable: there is an ad in between every single page, you either 20 second to flip a page, or have to click “skip” every [...]
