Comments on: PaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist plaform

By: William Vambenepe — Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:59:00 +0000

[...] what are the solutions? Is PaaS doomed to never go beyond hobbyists? Of course not. The possible solutions [...]

By: Edward M Goldberg

Edward M Goldberg — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:40:16 +0000

Thank you for the kind words about RightScale. I use this service also for many projects. They have made my dreams of a killer project come true.

Keep up the great posts. Cloud Computing is my passion. I will read every word.

Edward M. Goldberg

By: Craig McClanahan

Craig McClanahan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:47:53 +0000

Certainly beyond “hobbyist” today, in 2000 I was still learning how to change the world :-). But the context of your story sure rang a bell with me.

I agree with your view that PaaS is a tremendous enabler. And I’ve got a few friends and family that could really use a web-accessible 10-100 user app right about now …

Craig

By: William Vambenepe

William Vambenepe — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:21:20 +0000

Indeed, though I would consider you Craig a tad bit over the “hobbyist” level, don’t you think? :-)

By: Craig McClanahan

Craig McClanahan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:42:48 +0000

Wow, Struts 1.0 pretty much qualifies on the criteria listed in your first paragraph :-).

It was conceived originally out of a bunch of mailing list discussions about reasonable MVC-ish architectures for a servlet+JSP based application, but the core of the original code was written on a three-day Memorial Day weekend at the Oregon coast (one of the first times I ever took a laptop along with me, which my wife was none too happy about at the time :-). I figured a few hundred people in the world might be casually interested in it. Guess I was wrong.

Of course, it would have been nice to pull this off in the current “monetizing open source is good, not evil” environment rather than 2000, but I digress …

Craig