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Bungee Offers Platform-as-a-Service Dev Beta
2/26/2008
The pricing for the system is modeled on the utility-based collecting model. You don't pay for infrastructure costs or by developer seat. Bungee Connect clients only pay as their end users use the applications that were created using the system.
"There's absolutely no cost for using our rich development and testing environment," Ball explained. "So you can log on and build an account and build any number of enterprise applications with any number of developers at absolutely no cost. When you publish that Bungee-powered app on the Bungee-powered hosting environment, then you pay for only actual use."
The cost for a high-end business application might range from $1 to $5 per user per month, Ball suggested. An individual e-commerce transaction may cost from one to two pennies per transaction, he added.
"It's a model that we didn't invent," Ball said. "Amazon has the same collecting model [for its storage on demand service]."
Jeff Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies Inc., a consulting service centered on software-as-a-service technologies, described Bungee Labs' cloud development support model as currently a small part of the overall SaaS industry.
"There is a small but growing number of companies offering pay-as-you-go development platforms in the 'cloud'," Kaplan stated via e-mail. "The most prominent example is Amazon.com. There are also open source communities, like www.sourceforge.net and www.dotnetnuke.com, which offer Web-based development toolkits."
A free sign-up for Bungee Connect is available here. For more on the company's platform-as-a-service concept, go here.
Kurt Mackie is online news editor, Enterprise Group, at 1105 Media Inc. You can contact Kurt at kmackie@1105media.com.
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