Are You Bullish on PaaS?

I am curious about the LANSA community and who is bullish on PaaS. It would be an interesting departure for LANSA to participate in the model. Imagine developers using free programming tools offered by LANSA to create applications and deploy them in the cloud.

This development model is radically different from traditional approaches, where programmers install commercial tools on their local systems, write code, then deploy and manage the applications on their own infrastructures. But the PaaS model is gaining traction.

There has been a flurry of activity in this area that includes:

• SAP purchase PaaS Vendor’s Intellectual Property (Coghead)
• Telcos being pulled toward PaaS (See Article)
• Predictions of IDC for Asia include: the resurrection of SaaS and the increasing adoption of Platform-as-a-Service (Paas);
• And of course Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have had have had PaaS for some time

If you are starting to explore this model, let me know. I would enjoy chatting with others about this subject. Perhaps, we can present a model to LANSA that makes business sense for them and delivers the technology to the world.

Portal Re-development moving forward.

The Essential Enterprise Portal re-development is moving closer to a full release utilizing the Jetspeed 2 open source portal. Here is a re-cap of what is completed and underway at this stage of the re-development project:

Finished

• News Portlet re-design and conversion to JSR 168 portlet standard.


• Rippe WAM Portlet for Lansa integration converted to JSR 168 portlet standard.


• Essential Portlet application developed to contain the new applications.


• Database conversion utility built to migrate from verion 1.5 of the portal to the new database schema.


• 5250 emulation written to JSR 168 portlet standard.
  

Currently Underway

• Convert The Essential Database Browser Portlet to JSR 168 portlet standard.


• Re-design of the document repository portlet to JSR 168 portlet standard.


• Visual theme designer to be introduced in Version 2 of Essential Enterprise Portal.


• Portlet Generator to be re-designed for Version 2 of Essential Enterprise Portal.
  


• First deployment of Version 2 of the Essential Enterprise Portal is being built and targeted for our 1SYNC portal.

For more information on the Essential Enterprise Portal, send an email to Brad Gardner or visit the Rippe & Kingston Website.

Version 12. of METHOS is Released

Cincinnati, Ohio – February 2, 2009 – Rippe & Kingston Systems, Inc. With the need for greater efficiencies and cost savings high on executive agendas, superior maintenance management is emerging as a business imperative. The new release of METHOS™ significantly raises the bar in areas of Process Improvements and Integration with other systems. See Details

METHOS is 100% LANSA