[maxklein]

What I'm saying is that the numbers don't add up. There are not 10 herokous or similar - platforms are a winner take all game. The market is also much smaller than consumer goods.

It's not clever to think there is more opportunity in selling B2B products : the market is MUCH tougher and the competition is a lot more skilled.

This gold-digger analogy is seductive because it fits in so perfectly with the programmer mindset, but look outside the bubble: most money is made in selling goods to consumers, not to businesses.

[spokey]

> There are not 10 herokous or similar

1. Salesforce's Force.com

2. Amazon's EC2

3. Google's AppEngine

4. Microsoft's Windows Azure

5. VMWare/Salesforce's VMForce

6. Makara

7. CloudBees

8. PiCloud

9. PHPFog

10. DuoStack

I'm not sure it's obvious that PaaS is "winner take all", but even if it is, right now there are several deep-pocketed companies fighting to be that winner. Sounds pretty good if you're looking for an exit.

[maxklein]

Those are not hosting the same languages as Herouku, so there is no direct competition.