The Wisdom of Clouds

Read all 'silver' posts in The Wisdom of Clouds
June 22, 2009 2:15 PM PDT

The new generation of cloud-development platforms

by James Urquhart
  • 1 comment

Software development "in the cloud" has been one of the really interesting developments to come out of the cloud computing market so far. While many early players, such as Zimky and Coghead died on the vine, there is a pretty robust Platform as a Service (or "PaaS") market out there today, with Google App Engine taking the most visible lead, and a pretty solid stable of Ruby on Rails-based hosting providers telling a compelling story of their own.

Such success is driving some new players to seek the spotlight, however. I wanted to highlight two that I found most interesting. They are very different from one another, but those differences highlight the breadth of opportunity that remains in the PaaS market.

... Read more
  • prev
  • 1
  • next
advertisement
Click Here

15 sites that went kaput in 2009

Web sites launch all the time, but they also shut their doors. We highlight 15 that bit the dust this year.

Top 10 news stories of the decade

Let the debate begin: Was the iPhone more important than iTunes? Was anything bigger than Google finding a great business model? CNET offers its list of the 10 most important stories of the '00s.

About The Wisdom of Clouds

The Wisdom of Clouds, a CNET Tech blog by James Urquhart, covers cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS, data centers, and much more.

Add this feed to your online news reader

The Wisdom of Clouds topics

Most Discussed

Inside CNET News

Scroll Left Scroll Right