[gamedna]

PaaSes also require a lot of operational prowess. Once you have the engineering prototype up and running, keeping it running is a whole other story.

[jacques_chester]

This is also true.

At Pivotal we dogfood the latest releases of Cloud Foundry by deploying it to Pivotal Web Services: our public, we-make-money-from-this, there-are-legal-and-marketing-consequences-for-fucking-up cloud service.

By and large, nobody notices when we do it. BOSH is pretty good at that stuff.