According to Bart Copeland, CEO of ActiveState, cloud computing, specifically private and hybrid platform as a service (PaaS), is poised to shake up enterprise application development. He predicts six changes will occur before 2015:
- “Mobile apps will drive enterprise cloud and private PaaS adoption.”
- “Private clouds will dominate the enterprise market for now… but hybrids will win in the end.”
- “Smaller ‘public PaaS’ players will dwindle as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) subsumes PaaS.”
- “2013 PaaS purchase criterion: deployment acceleration. 2015 PaaS purchase criteria: administrative control, true polyglot development, easy extensibility to Big Data.”
- “Beyond polyglot, ‘anyglot’ development will move apps forward in ways we can’t yet imagine.”
- “Agile development will be so agile we’ll need a new name for it (‘SuperAgile’?).”
