The cloud era is not about software
October 15, 2012
Packaged software vendors may be starting to offer cloud-computing services in recent years, but their transition to a services-based business will be difficult to achieve, says CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey.
“They are software vendors, not services vendors. Everything about those companies in terms of sales compensation and business models supports the software model,” he told Techgoondu in a telephone interview from Switzerland last month. “The cloud era is a services era, not a software era,” he said.
While vendors such as Red Hat and VMware have been touting cloud software that allows businesses to create their private platform as a service (PaaS), Labourey said such offerings only serve to satisfy the needs of IT managers who are in denial about the benefits of the public cloud…
“Private PaaS will never be able to match the cost efficiencies and time-to-market benefits of the public cloud,” he said. CloudBees, however, is a public PaaS offering that brings Java developers to the cloud era, Labourey said. ”Not only do we provide developers with a Java development platform as a service, we also help them to speed up their time-to-market.”…
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