ActiveState has wheeled out Stackato 2.0, its revved application platform for creating a private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
It fancies it’s a “Ferrari,” claiming it’s “screamingly fast, can turn on a dime, and grips the road in any weather.” That’s good. Maybe that way it’ll be able to pull away from the pack. The PaaS market is starting to look like the New York subway at rush hour.
Anyway, the Canadian outfit figures the widgetry redefines PaaS for the enterprise and extends Stackato’s position in “PaaS polyglot compatibility,” a fancy way of saying it can be built out of any language on any stack on any cloud.