This got passed around at work.<p>The problems are:<p>1. PaaS is such a good idea that everyone is building their own. Even though the field has matured -- Cloud Foundry and OpenShift are already available and supported by major vendors.<p>2. The author cherrypicked a selection of failed small vendors as the marker of the trend. By this logic every single technological advance of the past 100 years is dead.<p>Meanwhile, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has the fastest-growing sales of any opensource product in history.<p>What I agree with:<p>PaaSes don&#x27;t get love from techies because we like to tinker. We always assume we can do better. We often can, and for special cases PaaSes may not be suitable.<p>But large organisations with heterogenous teams and apps, PaaSes are godsend.<p>Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, which donates the majority of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry.