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Open Platform as a ServiceTM is "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) taken to the next level

Unlike PaaS, (e.g., Force.com, etc.) and Software as a Service (SaaS), with Open Platform as a ServiceTM, you are NOT LOCKED IN to proprietary languages, servers, operating systems, development tools, etc. You are also not limited to what a specific platform can do. Don't we want more than custom tabs and fields? :) With Open Platform as a Service, you are only limited by your own imagination. And that is really the way life should be, shouldn't it? Isn't it hard enough to create and launch a new product? Who wants to spend all that time and effort just to have the platform not be able to do the new hot feature you need it to be able to do to differentiate yourself from the competition? This OPEN approach to PaaS (OPaaS) is the next logical step for many reasons, below are a few.

Give me 10 Good Reasons why I should Open Platform as a ServiceTM
1. Doesn't lock you into any proprietary API
2. Doesn't tell you which tools to use to create your applications
3. Doesn't tell you how much to charge for your applications or how to run your business
4. Is not in competition with you
5. You can use any programming language to create applications
6. The applications you create will be highy visible on our Website so people can easily find them
7. You can make money by creating applications and charging money for them in and outside of The Open Store
8. You can create applications and give them away free and charge for support
9. You can create extensions for other developers applications and sell them
10. Is a complete ecosystem supporting code, applications, systems, ASP's, SaaS's, PaaS's, programmers, designers and users
Ok... how about 2 more?
11. You can create new applications incorporating other developers code (if they expose the functionality) and sell them!
12. You can connect to your own server or any cloud you want, (e.g., Amazaon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, IBM Blue Cloud, etc.
Ummm... 1 more?
13. You can organize, reuse and resell your codebase in new, interesting ways from one manageable front-end
Ok, 1 more please!
14. When you move an existing application to OPaaS, it is like simply changing the tires, not rebuilding the engine like it is with PaaS

Nice. So what does the Open Platform as a Service TM topology look like? The "cloudology" shown below seamlessly integrates all the best development models thus far on the Internet. 

The new n-Tier. The cloudology of an Open Platform as a ServiceTM:



Browser - > - http - > - OPaaS - > - http - > -                                                                      
      |                                         | - - Any PaaS
      |                                         | - - Any SaaS
      |                                         | - - Any Cloud, (e.g., Amazon, Google, IBM, etc.)
      | - < - http - < - OPaaS - - < - http - < | - - Any Web Service
                                                | - - Any DBMS
                                                | - - Any home-brew script
                                                | - - Any code or application accessible via http
As you can see by the cloudology, when we say open, we mean it. Open Platform as a ServiceTM lets the developer pick the best tools to get the job done. You can use as many or as little as the remote services shown above. "I got Force.com'd" is now a thing of the past.

If you are a programmer, you can make money by selling your applications, selling access to them, creating new unique applications/mashups by combining existing code and remote accessible applications or writing your own glue code to create a never-seen-before application! You own the code! You host it wherever you want! We don't "Force.com you" into anything! You can even hide the OPaaS branding, graphics, object selector, etc. to have your own private label applications/systems!

If you are a Web Designer, you can use the OPaaS to create real applications for your own and your clients Websites with no programming required! Some applications are even FREE!
Also, create applications with applications and sell them and make money!

How does Open Platform as a Service Compare to Force.com and other PaaS companies?
We think Force.com is a good name for companies like theirs because they FORCE you to build their future not yours, force you to use and be locked into all their proprietary technologies and limit what you can do as a developer. We don't "Force.com you" into anything. As a developer, when you contemplate your application ideas, do you want to be limited to what a particular platform can do? Do you want to get halfway into a great application (or worse after launch) only to find out that the closed platform you are building it on simply can't do what you want? We are confident you will agree OPEN IS THE WAY TO GO and there is simply no comparison after you Compare Open Platform as a Service to old PaaS companies.

But that is just 1/4 of the story
What about - The other parts of the application creation and distribution ecosystem?

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster - or use the Open Platform as a ServiceTM
When a traditional SaaS or PaaS company goes out of business, as is common with high overhead companies with lots of funding, you are basically out of luck. Look at what just happened to Coghead. All your time, efforts and applications are wasted and useless because they only work on that platform you gambled your future on. On the other hand, in the highly unlikely event (we are lean and mean and have no debt) that Open Platform as a Service goes out of business, since you own the code, you can keep running your applications on your server if they are already running there, or simply move the source code to your server if they are running on the OPaaS server. We will also provide the OPaaS run-time to you to run on your server. None of work is wasted and you continue uninterrupted. So ask yourself, do you want to build your own future or someone else's and risk everything?

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