Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) by LongJump

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was a featured guest on the PricewaterhouseCoopers Start Up Show hosted by Steve Bengston September 25th. Pankaj and Steve discussed how Platform-as-a-Service as an organizational application development platform and the future of cloud computing can help businesses improve their IT services.
He talked about the need for PaaS, benefits, state of the industry and [...]

The release of our Developer Suite received some great feedback from the media. Our standards-based approach, leveraging a Java-based development environment complete with a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), means developers can use their existing skill set and without having to learn new code and thus build apps faster.
Martin Heller of Infoworld comments in “Cloud application [...]

Rapidly Design, Develop and Deploy Custom Enterprise Applications, Lower Development Costs and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Sunnyvale, CA, Monday, September 22, 2008 – LongJump, a leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, today unveiled its LongJump Development Suite for developers eager to exploit the business opportunities and advantages of Internet-based application development and delivery. LongJump’s developer suite reflects the growing interest [...]

As part of our continued efforts to evangalize PaaS, we will be hosing a webinar, “PaaS Applications: What Every IT Organization Needs to Know”. This webinar is primarily intended for IT executives, we will discuss: 

Basic concepts of PaaS, e.g. benefits, technology, potential risks and hurdles, etc.
Applications suitable for PaaS
Roadmap for successful adoption and integration
Q&A

Date:
Wed., Sept. 24, 2008
Time:
8am [...]

As noted in an earlier blog post below, we were at the Office 2.0 Conference, where LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya, participated in a panel discussion along with representatives from Salesforce and Zoho.
The panel discussed how PaaS addresses the Long Tail of IT applications where vendors like Oracle, SAP are not focusing. IT, despite being resource [...]

Why are Hollywood blockbusters so expensive to produce?
They often run $100-million or more to make. The reason is that every movie project is a product; fully conceived and produced from the lines in the script to the distributed prints that get sent out to the movie theater. Hollywood studios often have to create everything [...]