Forrester estimates PaaS market will grow to $15.2B

[Jasmin Young]

Have you seen the latest report by Forrester Research on PaaS market
sizing? Forrester estimates it will grow to $15.2B. This is fueled by
trends in SaaS and Cloud Computing.

Report estimates
- Up to 20% of all business applications offered by ISVs will be in an
SaaS deployment by 2016
- Up to 8% of the IT outsourcer business is potentially affected by a
PaaS approach
- Up to 15% of corporate middleware will be replaced by PaaS
infrastructure in private clouds.

Impact on corresponding revenues
- Up to 15% of the commercial SaaS business application revenue will
go to platform suppliers
- Up to 20% of the affected outsourcing revenue contributes to the
PaaS market
- Up to 60% of the affected middleware revenues could be replaced by
PaaS

You can download full report here: http://www.cordys.com/cordyscms_com/analyst_coverage.php

Thoughts?

Jasmin Young

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Report author Forrester cloud specialist @stefanried
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