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johaanon The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

Sorry, no elasticity indeed. Just added resources.

johaanon A tale of a 7 year journey in developing software for the enterprise

Can you try to explain a bit more what "doesn't feel right"?

And yes... as a startup that does agile, cloud / PaaS, and MDD (Model-Driven Development) you have a hard time conquering ground in the Enterprise world. You need to convince people of 3 new things...

The main lesson: don't focus on these "things", but focus on the value. You do not sell them tech, but a solution to a real-world problem: they need an app as soon as possible as time-to-market is key.

johaanon Language Workbench Competition 2011

In 2005 Martin Fowler first coined the term Language Workbench, to describe a new class of software development tools, designed to build software through a rich environment of multiple, integrated, Domain Specific Languages. Two weeks ago, the first Language Workbench Competition was held. This article gives an overview of the 10 tools demonstrated at this competition.