The ideal situation would be a PaaS that achieves the advantages of a hosted solution without compromising on the customer's ability to extend the platform into

The ideal situation would be a PaaS that achieves the advantages of a hosted solution without compromising on the customer's ability to extend the platform into either their own environment or adjacent cloud providers. Many companies have built successful revenue models around open sourcing the core platform and then monetizing the PaaS/SaaS offering. Either way, happy to help anyway I can - thanks for following up.