PaaS Portability Challenges And the VMforce Example
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 2:32PM - William Vambenepe
The VMforce announcement is a great step for SalesForce.com, in large part because it lets them address a recurring concern about the force.com PaaS offering: the lack of portability of Apex applications. Now they can be written using Java and Spring instead. A great illustration of how painful this issue was for Salesforce.com is to see the contortions that Peter Coffee goes through just to acknowledge it:
“On the downside, a project might be delayed by debates—some in good faith, others driven by vendor FUD—over the perception of platform lock-in. Political barriers, far more than technical barriers, have likely delayed many organizations’ return on the advantages of the cloud”.
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