Types
- Add-on development facilities
These facilities allow customization of existing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and in some ways are the equivalent of macro language customization facilities provided with packaged software applications such as Lotus Notes, or Microsoft Word. Often these require PaaS developers and their users to purchase subscriptions to the co-resident SaaS application.
- Stand alone development environments
Stand-alone PaaS environments do not include technical, licensing or financial dependencies on specific SaaS applications or web services, and are intended to provide a generalized development environment.
- Application delivery-only environments
Delivery-only PaaS offerings do not include development, debugging and test capabilities as part of the service, though they may be supplied offline (via an Eclipse plugin for example). The services provided generally focus on security and on-demand scalability.
- Open platform as a service
This type of PaaS does not include hosting as such, rather it provides open source software to allow a PaaS provider to run applications. For example, AppScale allows a user to deploy some applications written for Google App Engine to their own servers, providing datastore access from a standard SQL or NoSQL database. Some open platforms let the developer use any programming language, any database, any operating system, any server, etc. to deploy their applications.
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