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Platform as a Service is a term that can be fairly confusing for many people. Normally the term is associated with Google App Engine from Google and Force.com from Salesforce.com as the main references for this model. PaaS also represents the next wave in middleware technology. One that is targeted for virtualized enterprises, one that was designed for scale-out from the get go, one that fits the new way of delivering SaaS applications and one that can be extremely simple to use. In this post i examine the impact of this new trend on the existing application server market.