Cloud-Based Application Platform and PaaS by LongJump

Recently, Infoworld’s Tom Kaneshige wrote an article entitled “A Future without Programming” in which new technologies, such as LongJump’s Platform as a Service solution, are enabling non-coders to build their own applications. Unfortunately, the discussion became about whether developers would still have a place in the grand scheme of software delivery as these easy-to-use tools [...]

Fredric Paul, publisher and editor-in-chief, wrote an article on bMighty.com about how while Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is mostly geared towards software developers, it is making it easier to create programs, and thus promises more choices and higher-quality business applications for all kinds of companies. By now, everyone knows the value of software as a service (SaaS) to small [...]

At its 2008 SIMposium conference this week in Orlando, SIM (the Society for Information management) published the results of their survey highlighting the top 10 IT management concerns (listed below): IT and Business Alignment Build Business Skills in IT IT Strategic Planning Attracting IT Professionals Making Better Use of Information Manage Change Reduce the Cost [...]

In a recent article by Telephony Online, entitled ASP to SAAS to Clouds — Oh my!, Rich Karpinski looked at how service providers are attempting to offer cloud-based solutions as part of their menu of services to their endpoint clients. So how hard could it be for those same service providers to deliver network-based apps, [...]