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We just wrapped up our third eSeminar with ZDEnterprise “How ISVs Can Leverage Cloud Computing to Deliver New SaaS Business Apps in Months, Not Years.” Many thanks to Adam Day, VP of Business Development at HRAnswerlink for his participation on describing how his firm was able to leverage LongJump’s on-premise PaaS to drive rapid deployment [...]

This post was inspired by Tuomas Pelkonen’s blog on How to Manage Programmers because he brings up great points on wasting programmers’ time and reducing their workload. I don’t know a single programmer who likes wasted effort. In fact, there’s a beauty to what they do, much like a poet, when they are able to [...]

Join the PaaS Network group on LinkedIn! Engage in discussions about PaaS, Cloud Computing and its role in application design, development, and distribution as well as read and share PaaS news. This is a great resource for enterprise developers, software vendors, and others to exchange information about Platform-as-a-Service. Technorati Tags: cloud computing, linkedin, PaaS, Platform-as-a-Service

The Focused Approach to Delivering Cloud Applications Using Platform-as-a-Service PaaS is the next transformational wave in software-as-a-service and it’s already here. Are you ready? Join us for an insightful and practical examination of PaaS and its effect on how businesses can accelerate SaaS application development. Stefan Ried, Senior Analyst at Forrester will share the latest [...]

ChannelWeb has recognized LongJump as one of the 20 Coolest Cloud Companies, positioning it with the likes of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. This comes on the heels of last week’s naming of LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya to their list of Top 25 Technology Thought Leaders. As indicated by ChannelWeb, [...]

The LongJump platform made its debut on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Applications Servers. Incidentally, we were one of only two PaaS-capable platforms to be featured, and the only one which could operate as a PaaS and on-premise. Pankaj Malviya, CEO and Founder of LongJump, had this to say: “We believe LongJump’s placement in Gartner’s [...]

Pankaj Malviya, CEO of LongJump was at SIIA OnDemand in San Jose last week to showcase the LongJump cloud applications platform. While public and private cloud infrastructure may be top mind, the applications that sit in that cloud also need a revolutionary strategy. LongJump presents a streamlined approach to application development that leverages the shared [...]

Database and technology analyst Ken North examines how Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions help accelerate adoption of the cloud model within organizations. As we have indicated many times ourselves, and Mr. North comes to a similar conclusion: PaaS solutions have particular appeal for startups, projects with ambitious deadlines, and organizations with a limited budget for capital expenditures. [...]

Steve Bobrowski at The Cloud Option has an insightful post today looking at the evolution of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) into the enterprise. Specifically, he discusses the movement into private cloud environments. According to Bobrowski: PaaS allows application developers to simply build applications in the cloud, without ever having to worry about hardware acquisition and configuration, software [...]

Bill Ives of theAppGap took an extensive look at LongJump‘s application platform recently. The article looks at how LongJump is able to help businesses quickly build an object model, add processing, reporting, and even extend applications using industry standard development tools such as Java. According to Bill: I can certainly see the benefit fit of [...]