As platform as a service (PaaS) become more popular and more important, quite a few vendors have entered the market. Here’s a quick overview of twelve of the most important cloud development platforms:
- CloudBees — an independent Java development platform
- CloudFoundry — a Java, Ruby, Node.js and Scala platform from VMware
- DotCloud — an independent, multi-language platform that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Elastic Beanstalk — AWS’s deployment service for .NET, Java and PHP apps.
- Engine Yard — an independent Ruby on Rails and PHP platform that runs on AWS
- Force.com — Salesforce.com’s platform for apps written with its proprietary technology
- Google App Engine — a simplified Java, Python and Go platform from Google
- Heroku — Salesforce.com’s other platform, which supports multiple languages
- Longjump — a platform for building enterprise apps with an MVC implementation of Java
- OpenShift — a PHP, Perl, Ruby, Node.js and Python platform from RedHat
- SmartCloud — a Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET platform from IBM
- Windows Azure — Microsoft’s cloud development platform, which supports .NET, Java and some other languages
