Now that we’ve all gotten over our infatuation with SaaS (back from Wikipedia yet? Ok, let’s move on) it’s time to talk about PaaS (off to Wikipedia again aren’t you?!).
Platform as a Service is a great idea. Back in the good ‘ol daystm®© we used to share our time on the mainframe provided by the university/company/agency. Now computing resources are becoming commodities and anyone can buy time on a CPU somewhere. We’ve even got Folding@home and others that let us lend our own CPU power to others.
But how does this work out for the hobbyist? The guy like me who hacks away a few lines of Visual Basic or Java between mowing the lawn and changing diapers?
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