"This is a first in class fully enterprise-supported application platform for containers," he said.
"Today's benchmark results prove the success of our strategy, and these innovations redefine the playing field for enterprise-class application platforms," said Gates.
The first and second category contain the PaaS platforms that support traditional programming models and aim to match the APIs of enterprise application servers and middleware platforms (e.g. CloudFoundry [28], OpenShift [27] and GAE [5]).
At a blogger roundtable one Microsoftee even suggested that Sharepoint is, or will be, the application platform for enterprise apps.
WorkLight: WorkLight's flagship product, WorkLight Application Platform, securely syndicates enterprise applications in a multitude of consumer online channels, such as widgets, social networks, personalized homepages, iPhone applications, blogs and RSS feeds.
Much like the once unstoppable Microsoft, Google is using their platform dominance and vast resources to colonize the consumer and enterprise application stack.
In practice, enterprises that work with Mirantis will get a number of services through the Application Platform.
The foundation of Pivotal's application platform, the CloudFoundry CEAP and PaaS, is using a cloud-based model of elasticity, preserving compatibility with many enterprise Java applications.
Application Platform (YAP).
