PaaS model turn the platform services of software
development environment and platform as a special service
to end customers. The company enables to provide research
and development platform to enterprise and individuals.
Such services belong to distributed platform services model.
The vendors provide development environment, server
platform, and hardware resources to customers. The users
can build special-purpose applications on these platforms
and deliver their software services to third party users on
internet. For example, the representative cloud platform
services can be referenced as Google’s App Engine,
Salesforce’s force.com platform, Yahoo’s Pipes,
Dapper.net’s Bruman08 etc.
PaaS model turn the platform services of software
development environment and platform as a special service
to end customers.