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2- Google App Engine and Heroku are not Open Source, can't think of an Open Source PaaS or one that is Open Source and made somebody a lot of money,

• sciurus 11y ago
  They aren't open source, but people run lots of open source software on them.
  • lazyant 11y ago
    I think I'm not smart enough to get it; lots of servers run on Linux so how's that different?
    • sciurus 11y ago
      You don't say "I want to run linux, I'll pay Heroku to do it for me." You say, for example, "I want to run Wordpress, I'll pay Heroku to do it for me."
• jacques_chester 11y ago
  Cloud Foundry. The major contributors are Pivotal and IBM. Pivotal is on track for $100 million in revenue this year, the fastest growing revenue for any open source product in history. Ever. In any category. Disclaimer: I work in Pivotal Labs, another division in Pivotal.
• jsmeaton 11y ago
  I thought that github met his exact prediction. They took an open source product (git), hosted it as a webapp, and got people to pay for it (github enterprise).