Managed hosting: Don’t migrate your on-premise apps May 15th 2008

Managed hosting seems a good way to migrate to SaaS. Look closer and the chances of making money like this are slim to non-existent.

In part one of this article I introduced Phil Wainewright’s five layer PaaS model.

Phil asked readers to say which layer they would prefer to use for building a SaaS application. Readers had cast 173 votes by May 15th.

Let’s work though these results and see what they mean for ISVs moving to SaaS.

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Understand the market: 5-layer model for PaaS vendors May 8th 2008

ISVs moving to SaaS have trouble classifying PaaS options. Phil Wainewright’s five-layer market model helps position PaaS vendors.

As an ISV moving to PaaS, you need to understand what choices are available to pick the right one. The Cloud Computing, Saas and PaaS market map is a good high-level view, but does not go into enough detail. To understand PaaS vendor positioning we need something more.

Phil Wainewright has a good five-layer PaaS model on the Software as Services blog that is more helpful. Phil splits the PaaS market into the following five layers:

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