PaaS ain't dead: And Jelastic has Java-Father Gosling to prove it

Akin to the T-rex in Jurassic Park (arguably the hero of the piece, in our opinion), when Java founder James Gosling makes moves in the sector, everyone knows about it. So it was no surprise that the Twittersphere was ablaze when the news broke that Gosling and Brazillian fellow Java hero Bruno Souza would be joining Java and PHP PaaS and IaaS specialists Jelastic in the roles of independent director and advisor. PaaS has had some public knocks in recent months, with pioneers CloudBees taking a step back from what they deemed an ‘immature’ market to focus on Jenkins fuelled Continuous Integration. Moreover, Docker, a game changer for formerly beleaguered PaaS vendors dotCloud, has further turned the screws by providing a lot of the functionality you’d get with the technology, but without the focus on infrastructure, and at a far lower pricing point.



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