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Market Snapshot: PaaS

Most PaaS services fall into four different types of platforms today:

• Computing Platforms –Instead of buying bundled services, you can contract for
individual applications for your computing needs. Flickr is an example of photo storage
that allows you to store your photos in one location and it is delivered as a PaaS.

• Web applications – Services that allow you to use applications through APIs. For
instance, YouTube and Twitter would be two popular examples of web applications as
PaaS.

• Business applications –showing up to handle the computing needs of clients in a
variety of ways. These could include industry-specific applications or generic business
applications such as database technology, web conferencing or voice over internet
telephony.

• Social applications – social applications that allow you to integrate into your websites,
either on the public end or the back end. Examples include Facebook.