Comments on: PaaS not cheap enough? AppFog has a deal for you! http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/paas-not-cheap-enough-appfog-has-a-deal-for-you/ Fri, 24 May 2013 03:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Allan http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/paas-not-cheap-enough-appfog-has-a-deal-for-you/#comment-1269998 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:24:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=595947#comment-1269998 nice spam post Gil

]]> By: Gil http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/paas-not-cheap-enough-appfog-has-a-deal-for-you/#comment-1269465 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:05:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=595947#comment-1269465 Personally, I think cost is the secondary issue.
If a certain platform can save me a lot of time and effort – I would go for it.
The bigger issue is the lack of flexibility. I want to be able to control everything (just if needed) – to choose versions, to use whatever network protocols I wish, to even install something kernel level if I need to (not common, but not that far-fetched). For this – we need something in the middle between IaaS and PaaS – keeping the ease of use of PaaS, while not killing the flexibility of IaaS (*only if needed*).

You can take a look at http://www.ravellosystems.com – our take on this is to let our users create customizable and cloud-agnostic blueprints (which support customization in the deepest levels possible, while also allowing duplicating applications).

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