This got passed around at work. The problems are: 1. PaaS is such a good idea that everyone is building their own. Even though the field has matured -- Cloud

This got passed around at work. The problems are: 1. PaaS is such a good idea that everyone is building their own. Even though the field has matured -- Cloud Foundry and OpenShift are already available and supported by major vendors. 2. The author cherrypicked a selection of failed small vendors as the marker of the trend. By this logic every single technological advance of the past 100 years is dead. Meanwhile, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has the fastest-growing sales of any opensource product in history. What I agree with: PaaSes don't get love from techies because we like to tinker. We always assume we can do better. We often can, and for special cases PaaSes may not be suitable. But large organisations with heterogenous teams and apps, PaaSes are godsend. Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, which donates the majority of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry.