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Re:Selling pickaxes during a gold rush by spokey on Saturday February 05, 2011 @09:21PM (#2184693)
> There are not 10 herokous or similar

1. Salesforce's Force.com

2. Amazon's EC2

3. Google's AppEngine

4. Microsoft's Windows Azure

5. VMWare/Salesforce's VMForce

6. Makara

7. CloudBees

8. PiCloud

9. PHPFog

10. DuoStack

I'm not sure it's obvious that PaaS is "winner take all", but even if it is, right now there are several deep-pocketed companies fighting to be that winner. Sounds pretty good if you're looking for an exit.

Re:Selling pickaxes during a gold rush by maxklein on Sunday February 06, 2011 @12:11PM (#2185954)
Those are not hosting the same languages as Herouku, so there is no direct competition.