Independent platform as a service (PaaS) providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors such as Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and Dell entering as competitors, but they expressed confidence this week that there is room in the market for many players.
As some of the original PaaS providers who have been operating for a year or more, they said they have more expertise and motivation to offer better services than traditional enterprise vendors that are just entering the market now.
“It doesn’t matter that there are so many [competitors]. The potential in the market is so huge. The real challenge is how to get the rest of the developers [not already using PaaS] to benefit from all the innovation going on,” said Solomon Hykes, CEO of dotCloud, a small provider of platform services.
PaaS executives spoke at the CloudBeat conference in Redwood City, California. Companies such as Engine Yard, dotCloud, Cumulogic, Appfog and Heroku, now owned by Salesforce.com, have attracted a loyal following of developers who appreciate that the platform providers let them concentrate on development so they don’t have to worry about servers.
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