On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:09 AM, <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After posting to this list to see if it is appropriate and getting good > feedback, I'm posting an announcement I think is very relative to this list > as I have been using PHP ever since it was a Perl script (PHP/FI) and have > been heavily influenced by it's concept and evolution when creating what I > am announcing. So the announcement is the launch of something I have been > working on in my spare time for a long time and what I believe will be a > logical next step in Internet development - ModBox an "Open Platform as a > Service" (OPaaS). Ok, what the #@#$ is OPaaS? OPaaS is PaaS, but open. > Think > Force.com/Google App Engine/Amazon EC2 - but open. Really open. Not fake > open like so much other BS services that try to lock you in. In a nutshell, > ModBox is a Web-based distributed development environment that is > completely > neutral in every way. So, you can use any infrastructure you want, any > programming language, any server, any OS, any database, etc. to > create/distribute applications. Also, because ModBox works over standard > HTTP, you can incorporate existing applications or web services into the > applications you create. ModBox brings all the pieces together seemlessly > for programmers and users. I hope I have borrowed the best ideas from > IDE's, > RAD, frameworks, Web services grid/cloud computing and Open Source to make > a > logical ecosystem which puts a much needed front-end/face on all of it. > This > list is the first place I have announced ModBox and I welcome you to Rock > the Box and let me know if it makes as much sense to you as it does to me. > I > would, of course greatly appreciate any feedback as I am not so bold to > think I have cracked the code on the 1.0. The URL is below. > > ModBox - Open Platform as a Service: > http://www.sullivansoftwaresystems.com/modbox > > Thanks for your time. > > Brian Sullivan > Sullivan Software Systems > ModBox - Rock the Box. > You already posted this once... -- Kyle Terry | www.kyleterry.com
