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1 Accelerating App Delivery How apaas Enables Fast Delivery & Continuous Innovation Issue 1 Welcome Resources From the Gartner Files: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide About Mendix Featuring research from
2 2 Welcome Innovate or perish. That s the reality facing every business, regardless of industry. The need to deliver modern, multi-channel applications that engage customers and empower employees has never been more urgent. Yet, fast-growing project backlogs and unhappy business sponsors are clear indications that traditional development approaches aren t cutting it. Enterprise application Platform-as-a-Service (apaas) offers a much-needed way forward, promising to accelerate your application delivery cadence and capacity. But the market is crowded, and not all apaas offerings are created equal. In Gartner s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as Service (apaas), Mendix was positioned as a Visionary due to its completeness of vision and ability to execute. Use this complimentary Gartner report to better understand and navigate the apaas landscape and ultimately select the platform best suited to your organization s priorities. Resources In addition to Gartner s perspective, we have included four resources to illustrate how Mendix supports customers through their digital journeys, empowering them to deliver the right apps with unprecedented speed. Successful App Delivery for the Digital Age Find out how to keep your IT team on track and quickly deliver the multi-channel, multi-device apps needed to digitize your business. Get ebook The ultimate guide to apaas Ready to move forward? Find out how apaas fits into the PaaS landscape, why it s a must-have for enterprises, and key questions to ask as you evaluate vendors. Get ebook [Video] apaas Success Stories See how Mendix customers, such as Dun & Bradstreet, LV= Insurance, The Boston Globe and Kao, are rapidly delivering custom apps that differentiate their business. Watch video [Video] The Mendix App Platform Tour Take a two-minute tour of the Mendix App Platform to see how companies all over the world create enterprise web and mobile applications faster and better than ever. Watch video Source: Mendix
3 3 From the Gartner Files: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide Application platform technology innovation has moved to the cloud, as CIOs, IT planners and architects, driven by the demands of cloud, mobile and IoT, seek innovation in technology and business. We examine the most prominent vendor offerings designed to support and advance these initiatives. Magic Quadrant FIGURE 1 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide Market Definition/Description Application infrastructure functionality, enriched with cloud characteristics and offered as a service, is platform as a service (PaaS). Gartner refers to it more precisely as cloud application infrastructure services. Application platform as a service (apaas) is a form of PaaS that provides a platform to support application development, deployment and execution in the cloud. It is a suite of cloud services designed to meet the prevailing application design requirements of the time, and, in 2015, includes mobile, cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data analytics innovations. An apaas that is designed to support the enterprise style of applications and application projects (high availability, disaster recovery, security and technical support) is an enterprise apaas. This market includes only companies that Source: Gartner (March 2015) provide public apaas offerings (vendors providing apaas-enabling software alone are not considered). See Platform as a Service: Definition, Taxonomy and Vendor Landscape, 2014 or Hype Cycle for Platform as a Service (PaaS), 2014 for an expanded form of the definition of apaas and other forms of cloud application infrastructure services (xpaas).
4 4 Vendor Strengths and cloudcontrol cloudcontrol is a European vendor that provides a high-control, multilanguage, shared-os apaas deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers. In August 2014, cloudcontrol added to its geographic coverage and doubled its customers when it bought the dotcloud North American apaas business from Docker. The underlying technology of the dotcloud apaas is being shifted to the technology used by the cloudcontrol apaas instances (applications built for dotcloud have to be migrated by May 2015), but the U.S.-based apaas will continue to operate under the dotcloud name, running on Google Compute Engine and offering an alternative infrastructure to the AWSbased cloudcontrol branded PaaS. The vendor also offers a white-label apaas program, mostly to telecommunications companies and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers, where cloudcontrol provides its apaas as a managed layer on top of the partner s IaaS offering. Exoscale, in Switzerland, is an example of a white-label partner. All of the U.S., European and white-label implementations provide the same developer and runtime services with the same APIs, the same levels of support, and the same pricing arrangements. In addition to its buildpack-based deployment model, cloudcontrol offers an add-on marketplace where users can leverage more than 40 third-party services in areas such as continuous integration and deployment, log management, , search, security, data management, analytics, and message queuing. Strengths The vendor has over 1,400 registered customer accounts with more than 800 active deployments across its dotcloud and cloudcontrol branded services. Overall revenue from apaas services has been growing through the dotcloud acquisition, the white-label program and organic growth. Support of the buildpack specification enables cloudcontrol, its partners and its customers to extend the platform with new language engines, frameworks, databases and other software services available from other vendors that support buildpacks. The vendor provides and supports many buildpacks, but developers can create their own to expand the technologies that they can use. The vendor s white-label apaas program offering for telecommunications companies and IaaS providers provides a potentially powerful mechanism for expanding geographical coverage by acting as a force multiplier for cloudcontrol sales and marketing. cloudcontrol s use of the dotcloud brand in North America and its use of a white-label program for expansion into other geographies limit the vendor s ability to grow worldwide recognition of the cloudcontrol brand. As a smaller competitor in the apaas market, this could create a challenge to cloudcontrol s long-term market positioning. Its use of so many add-on partners for advanced capabilities increases cloudcontrol s external dependencies, and revenue sharing with these partners reduces cloudcontrol s net revenue. Slow growth of an ecosystem of SaaS providers that have built their applications on cloudcontrol s platform may be a handicap inasmuch as the extension and customization of SaaS applications are major drivers of apaas adoption in mainstream enterprise IT organizations. Without high-productivity development services for application development and integration, business process management (BPM), and event processing, cloudcontrol revenue opportunities will be limited to a subset of the market for enterprise PaaS services. Engine Yard Engine Yard is a cloud-based, shared-hardware, high-control apaas that uses a dedicated environment for each tenant. The platform supports a limited set of languages and frameworks: Originally focused just on Ruby on Rails, Engine Yard now also supports Java, Node. js and PHP. Each supported environment is a managed and curated infrastructure stack with a configurable composition. Founded in 2006, Engine Yard was a pioneer in the PaaS market. The platform caters to professional developers looking for a low-level platform that hides and automates system administration of an underlying IaaS. (The platform runs on, and Engine Yard resells, AWS, Azure and Verizon Terremark.)
5 5 For an apaas, Engine Yard provides exceptionally deep control of the underlying environment. In fact, the vendor now refers to the platform as a cloud application management platform, rather than apaas, indicating a shift in focus from apaas to utilitarian service provider. Applications run directly on the host infrastructure, and subscribers have full root access to the virtual servers. For example, subscribers can define custom Chef recipes to configure the servers. The platform supports manual and scheduled scaling, but no dynamic autoscaling. Strengths Engine Yard has over 1,500 Web 2.0 and digital business clients. It provides a solid foundation for DevOps and continuous delivery. It remains the leading apaas for Ruby on Rails deployments. Customers cite Engine Yard s responsiveness, support and reliability as key strengths. The vendor s tenant environments have been shown to scale well, and its underlying infrastructure can be extensively customized, which allows for advanced technical control for customers that want it. Engine Yard s transparent pricing model clearly shows costs for the Engine Yard platform versus the underlying IaaS, and this model is more cost-effective for larger customers than the previous model. Customers can now also deploy Engine Yard on their own IaaS environments. From a business perspective, Engine Yard stumbled in 2013 when it attempted to expand its market to line of business (LOB) clients in traditional corporate accounts was a year of change, and the board brought in a new executive team and restructured the company. The vendor is now refocused on its core strength: the developer and DevOps community. As a result, growth opportunities are limited. Engine Yard has limited cloud capabilities, particularly in elasticity and sharing. Its shared-hardware model and lack of dynamic autoscaling mean that it is best-suited for environments that benefit most from manual and preplanned approaches to changing capacity. Engine Yard is primarily focused on alleviating subscribers responsibilities for managing system infrastructure, but not to the point of relinquishing control of those system resources. Although the abstraction level provided does qualify as PaaS, much of the design and many of the use cases for Engine Yard are close to what Gartner calls IaaS+. The vendor does not provide its own integration, BPM, big data and analytics capabilities, nor does it offer a model-driven, high-productivity cloud platform environment. Those looking for an application platform for LOB levels of productivity or advanced enterprise projects should look elsewhere. Google Google s apaas offering is available in the form of Google App Engine (a shared-os, highcontrol application platform) and managed virtual machines (VMs) a somewhat extended technology of App Engine offered in the less restrictive, but also less elastic, shared-hardware format. Google s apaas offering supports Java, Python, Go and PHP programming. It is offered colocated with multiple related services, including Google Compute Engine and future Google Container Engine (both IaaS), as well as some xpaas offerings, such as SQL and NoSQL database management systems (DBMSs), analytics and mobile back-end services. Strengths Google s large installed base (it claims over 20,000 paying customers) consists of many small Web innovators, some very large Web business sites (such as Snapchat and Khan Academy) and a small, but growing number of mainstream enterprise IT organizations. Additionally, Google claims that over 90% of its internal IT is run on App Engine. This diversity in scale and use patterns creates a strong foundation for support of demanding enterprise workloads that also differ in use patterns and demand for quality of service across industries. Google s well-established reputation as a cloudnative service provider and an early platform and big data innovator lends credibility to App
6 6 Engine and other xpaas offerings for projects that seek cloud-native efficiency, scalability and agility. Google s apaas offering operates on the same worldwide network of data centers as all other Google services, such as Google Search and Google Apps for Work, reassuring its strategic priority to the company. Some of Google s recently added enterprise capabilities (including 99.95% availability SLAs; multiple models for disaster recovery; enterprise-level support, a relational DBMS in addition to high-scale NoSQL; nonintrusive version control; no planned downtime experience for customers; dynamic multimeasure bidirectional autoscaling; application life cycle management; API management; rich security support; cost optimization for workloads of different urgency; event processing; and conversational mode via channels) mitigate the long-standing obstacles to enterprise adoption of Google s apaas. API-level integration with Google Apps enables the vendor to offer its PaaS capabilities as an upsell to enterprises adopting Google Apps and looking for new ways to extend them using advanced programming. The combined selling of Google Apps (SaaS) and Google Cloud Platform (IaaS and PaaS) is a promising business opportunity. Google s historically limited reputation as an enterprise service provider, in general, and its small presence as an enterprise PaaS provider, in particular, have created a perception that it is a consumer-only vendor. To succeed as an enterprise platform provider, Google must develop an aggressive and convincing marketing campaign to overcome this perception. Beyond marketing, Google will have to continue to aggressively develop sales and account management practices to match the traditional expectations of mainstream enterprise IT (e.g., continuity, presence and trust). The lack of a model-driven, high-productivity apaas option in the Google Cloud Platform portfolio limits the addressable market for Google s apaas offering to highly skilled developers. Most enterprise LOB IT and citizen developers, and some productivity-oriented central IT application projects, will find that App Engine does not match well with their productivity requirements and skill sets, keeping Google out of the fast-growing Mode 2 cloud platform market in bimodal enterprise IT. A strategic focus on public cloud-only services and the absence of on-premises versions of Google software exclude the vendor from consideration by some more conservative mainstream enterprises looking for a hybrid PaaS environment as a kind of risk control approach. The few third-party attempts at porting App Engine to on-premises (for example, Red Hat CapeDwarf and AppScale) lack assured viability and have not gathered a substantial following, despite Google s cooperation and endorsement. Google s portfolio of xpaas capabilities misses some important services typically used by enterprise customers in conjunction with apaas. These especially include application and data integration, advanced in-memory computing, BPM, and legacy migration services. This delayed recognition of larger enterprise requirements puts Google at a competitive disadvantage in the mainstream enterprise computing market. IBM IBM s apaas offering is part of its Bluemix suite of PaaS capabilities (xpaas), developed and supported by IBM, its partners or the open community. These include database, integration, mobile, DevOps, security, monitoring and other services. IBM Bluemix is deployed on the network of SoftLayer data centers worldwide. IBM Bluemix is based in part on the open-source OpenStack and Cloud Foundry v.2 software. The Bluemix Liberty for Java offering implements IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core as a Cloud Foundry buildpack. Managed by the Cloud Foundry PaaS framework using its Warden OS container, it is a shared-os, high-control, cloud-based application platform service. IBM also provides the SDK for Node.js apaas environment. Other language environments and frameworks available on Bluemix include the communityprovided PHP, Go, Ruby and Python. Users are invited to add their own language environments utilizing the open-source buildpack support in IBM Bluemix.
7 7 Other IBM Bluemix capabilities (including the multiple available DBMS services that are essential to apaas operation) are delivered as Cloud Foundry services. By Cloud Foundry design, the cloud characteristics of buildpacks, such as elasticity and scaling, do not automatically extend to Cloud Foundry services. IBM implements some of the Bluemix services with embedded cloud management, but a consistent cloud enablement of Bluemix services is not yet available. The recent Bluemix Dedicated option supports the hosted managed private cloud model. Local Bluemix (now in beta) will offer on-premises managed private Bluemix. Having started as a public cloud-only Bluemix service, with these offerings, IBM is now well-positioned to support consistent hybrid PaaS and hybrid IT environments. Strengths IBM s large and loyal installed base, ample partner network, and the popularity and credibility of its on-premises application infrastructure offerings coupled with its strong professional services and outsourcing businesses provide the vendor with plenty of opportunities and channels to cross-sell its apaas offerings. Adding to this advantage, the partial backward compatibility of Liberty for Java with the on-premises WebSphere Application Server provides a migration path for software and development skills for most IBM customers. Wide name recognition achieved by IBM for its Bluemix strategy indicates an effective marketing effort and forms a good foundation for growth. The large catalog of capabilities available through the Bluemix marketplace, as well as the ecosystem of partners that is forming around the IBM cloud platform, create an opportunity for apaas and PaaS market leadership that IBM can solidify by building up the reputation and scale of its offerings. The use of open-source foundation technology in the form of OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, as well as IBM s strategic position in multiple open-source organizations, including the recently established Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), help IBM present its cloud vision as open, with less vendor lock-in than many of its megavendor competitors (although most users should not assume substantial freedom from lock-in). IBM Bluemix is the second attempt by the vendor to enter the apaas and PaaS market. The previous offering, SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS), has been replaced by Bluemix and discontinued, with customers facing a significant challenge of discontinuity. In that context, some prospects may feel that IBM must prove that Bluemix has the company s long-term strategic commitment and that there will be no more major disruptions on the IBM apaas road map. (IBM s growing broad investment in Bluemix can be seen as part of the answer to this concern.) Cloud Foundry software that is at the base of IBM Bluemix remains relatively immature. The next version, Cloud Foundry v.3, is under development now in the CFF community and, given its scale of change, is likely to introduce some discontinuities. IBM s own Cloud Foundry extensions, including the future support of the microservice architecture and a consistent cloud enablement of IBM s diverse Bluemix services, are separate from the CFF development, adding to the potential for some future disruptions for Bluemix customers. The lack of a model-driven, high-productivity apaas option in the Bluemix portfolio will likely lead LOB IT, citizen developers and some central IT projects to look elsewhere for suitable cloud application platform services, keeping IBM out of a fast-growing, productivitycentric Mode 2 market segment in bimodal enterprise IT. Some Bluemix services, such as DataWorks, use a model-driven design, but there is no strategic, shared, high-productivity apaas platform in the IBM portfolio. The large installed base of on-premises systems, while providing a potential for a solid base for growth, also forces IBM to adapt its cloud design decisions to meet the expectations of its established enterprise-bound customers. Many of those are demanding continuity of software, practices and skills, and the ability to migrate legacy systems to a cloud foundation. This limits IBM s ability to invest in new cloud-native platform architectures.
8 8 Indra gnubila Indra gnubila is the software and cloud service business unit of Indra, a large Spanish system integrator operating in about 140 countries. The business unit was set up after the acquisition of gnubila, a small Spanish software company. The vendor s G application platform is available as on-premises, cloud-enabled application platform (CEAP) software (via both an open-source license and as a supported product), and in the form of a high-control, cloud-native, shared-everything apaas. The G platform supports Java EE,.NET, Ruby, PHP, Python and Perl application containers, and provides additional capabilities atop the core application server platform, including mobile app support; a graph-oriented, in-memory multitenant DBMS (Gdb); big data capabilities; a model-driven rapid development platform; workflow; document management; support for mobile devices; and reporting and data integration features. The recently integrated Sofia2 technology adds API gateway/api management capabilities to the core application platform technology. The apaas rendition of the G platform is available on top of AWS, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure and Indra s Flex-IT IaaS platforms. The G platform is primarily used to support Indra s business units wishing to move established packaged applications to a cloud (private or public) architecture or to develop cloud-native applications, but is also proposed as a stand-alone offering. Strengths Indra gnubila s apaas core strengths are in its advanced and extensive set of features, and in the wealth of capabilities to support thirdparty independent software vendors (ISVs) and user organizations willing to move established on-premises applications to the cloud. These capabilities include: a variety of programming languages; an SQL in-memory DBMS; compatibility with Java EE and.net; migration tools; fast application cloning; an ample set of DevOps APIs; an application marketplace; a billing and accounting module; and integration with a variety of payment gateways. The use of the platform by other Indra business units validates the positioning of G as a platform to help cloudify precloud applications. In the past 12 months, Indra gnubila focused on further strengthening already notable cloud and enterprise-oriented capabilities (sharedeverything, autoscaling, high-availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, security and SLA arrangements) by adding: vertical scaling, self-auditing, an integration/api management platform and DevOps capabilities. The platform was also expanded to address additional use cases, such as IoT (via MQTT and Web sockets support) and big data (via integration with Apache Hadoop and Azure Tables). In this way, the vendor further increased the G platform s appeal with organizations looking for an apaas to support a variety of highly business-critical projects in pure cloud or hybrid deployment scenarios. Availability of the platform on multiple data centers and IaaS platforms, in addition to compatibility with the on-premises version, allows maximum deployment flexibility for user organizations and opens partnership opportunities for the vendor. Clients cite reliability, stable performance even during workload peaks, a fast and seamless upgrade process, low cost, and effective and timely support as notable characteristics of the platform. Indra gnubila s installed base grew modestly in 2014, thus making evident that the potential commercial synergies with Indra s business units and geographic presence have not yet turned into an effective sales strategy able to generate the fast, global growth momentum needed to survive in the highly competitive apaas marketplace. The G platform suffers from limited market awareness and a weak sales push, including in its own home country, neither of which have notably increased over the past 12 months and for which the vendor doesn t appear to have aggressive plans. Therefore, it will be difficult for the Indra gnubila apaas to get on the radar screens of organizations looking for an apaas. Technical support delivered from Colombia (where the platform is largely developed) and Spain, and a tiny professional services organization may be obstacles for the implementation of international-scale projects.
10 10 capabilities based on Azure Mobile Services, Azure Biz Talk Services and components of Azure API Management; and separately high-control Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, including Azure Web and Worker Roles (uses less-flexible sharedhardware elasticity). Azure Web Sites is also available as software for private cloud as part of the Windows Azure Pack. The full Azure App Service is intended to be offered as software at some future date. Microsoft apaas is part of a larger Azure cloud platform, where other PaaS capabilities, including DBMS, analytics, batch and identity management, and other services, are combined with IaaS capabilities, including compute and storage services. This cloud integrated infrastructure service (CIIS) platform enables on-cloud integration of older and new application software and databases. Microsoft Azure is available in Microsoft or partner-owned data centers in all major geographic regions. Strengths Windows developers familiar with.net languages and frameworks find Azure a natural environment from which to move to cloud application development. This presents the opportunity to bring millions of.net developers, as well as the thousands of.net ISVs, to Azure, and to establish a significant ecosystem of cloud application services (SaaS) and partners. A SaaS ecosystem in turn elevates its underlying PaaS, including apaas. Microsoft distinctively combines its proven reputation as an enterprise IT provider and the growing acceptance of the vendor as a competent cloud service provider. This coveted dual strength puts Microsoft ahead of most competitors, which typically lack the strength and reputation in either cloud or enterprise computing. Gartner believes that future platform market leadership will demand competence in both enterprise and cloud computing quality of service. Recently implemented support of non- Microsoft technologies (such as Linux-based compute, Java application development and Docker container management), combined with the increasing support of open-source software (including the offering of a.net framework under an open-source license), help communicate to the market the vendor s commitment to reduce lock-in for its customer base. This, as well as support for the onpremises variant of some Azure capabilities, helps attract apaas customers, including ISVs, often sensitive to lock-in issues. Revamped company leadership and new strategic investments that demonstrate innovative vision across multiple Microsoft business lines, as well as its fast-growing worldwide presence as a cloud service provider, lift many customers expectations of Microsoft s future, and help accelerate momentum in adoption of Microsoft apaas capabilities, which struggled in the market in prior years. The Microsoft Azure environment lacks a high-productivity, model-driven application design and development capability (Visual Studio productivity tools and some support of workflow in Azure App Service notwithstanding). Having a high-control programming environment alone, without a competitive high-productivity option, limits the market for the vendor s apaas offerings to advanced projects in enterprise central IT and independent developers. Reaching apaas market leadership will also require addressing the simpler application projects in central IT, as well as the requirements of LOB IT and citizen developers, all of which demand productivity tools. (Gartner expects that Microsoft will begin to address this shortcoming during the next 12 months and beyond, but the degree of success of future innovation is uncertain.) Microsoft s ambitious vision of a comprehensive IaaS/PaaS offering and its determination to adopt the latest market innovations demand a massive and highly agile development effort. The vendor is progressing in the right direction; however, in the meantime, this positions the current apaas environment as under construction, pending the arrival of a revamped, comprehensive underlying PaaS framework and many of the promised relevant capabilities, such as integration and BPM. Microsoft investment in cloud application services (Dynamics, Office 365) remains separately standing from its Azure services. This minimizes for Microsoft the best accelerator to adoption of PaaS: the SaaS customer base looking to extend, customize and integrate its SaaS capabilities. The business application services are also challenged to compete
12 12 NTT Communications NTT Communications is a large, well-recognized, proven global sourcing carrier service provider and cloud service provider, with headquarters in Tokyo and many regional offices globally. NTT Communications Cloudn PaaS is a highcontrol apaas on top of its public IaaS offering, introduced in April The service leverages Pivotal Cloud Foundry as an enabling technology, to which NTT Communications added cloudiness characteristics. The vendor has succeeded in earning a good presence in the IaaS business among demanding large enterprises. Its PaaS business is a strategic piece in expanding its strength across the larger cloud service stack (both in public and private deployments) and its business ecosystem, on top of its telecommunications service capability. Strengths The vendor s Cloudn PaaS has approximately 500 customers and supports multiple application server containers (Tomcat 6 and Resin) and multiple languages (including Java, Node.js, Ruby and multiple frameworks such as Spring and Play), and it provides a Cloud Foundry Eclipse plug-in for development. Its open-source-software-based openness provides application portability, minimizes vendor lock-in and strongly promotes the open PaaS movement by itself. Cloudn PaaS offers a broad set of high-control services, including AWS-compatible APIs (for example, autoscaling, monitoring, provisioning and multiple kinds of compute services). Cloudn PaaS supports multiple deployment scenarios (i.e., on-premises, hosted private, virtual private, public and hybrid cloud). By connecting Cloudn PaaS to Enterprise Cloud, its own private cloud (IaaS), via a VPN through an open network/closed network, a virtual private cloud is configured. Cloudn PaaS runs in NTT Communications own data centers both in Japan and the U.S., with high availability (i.e., an SLA of 99.99%) and options to choose where customers applications will run. NTT Communications plans to revamp its enabling application platform, starting with an upgrade to Pivotal Cloud Foundry v.2.0 or a newer-version-based technology set, as well as adding multiple IaaS orchestration features. Customers report the high quality of NTT Communications professional services resources in addressing customers needs in a responsive manner. The vendor s responsiveness to the apaasenabling technology evolution is slower than its competitors (for example, it only recently upgraded to Cloud Foundry v.2.0 as its enabling platform, and does not support alternative container technologies, such as Docker). NTT Communications Cloudn PaaS s focus is primarily on hosting or migrating onpremises applications to the cloud, not on new application development, and it lacks highproductivity development tools. The vendor s PaaS adoption growth is slow due to increasing severe competition from cloud service providers in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, and from conventional application platform vendors. Its installed base is still limited to inside Japan, with almost no presence abroad. The road map of Cloudn PaaS, from a business and technology perspective, is not clear, nor has notable evolutional progress been proposed. OrangeScape OrangeScape is a Chennai, India-based company (operating also from Mountain View, California). It was founded in 2003 as a vendor of on-premises, high-productivity development software. A highproductivity apaas offering, built over Google s high-control App Engine apaas, was offered in OrangeScape also offers KiSSFLOW, a bpmpaas available since Zapier is supported for citizen integration tasks. OrangeScape s technology, sales and marketing focus has been shifting toward bpmpaas capabilities since the introduction of KiSSFLOW. Strengths OrangeScape offers broad functionality that supports development of simple solutions as well as complex applications incorporating business rules, workflow, complex data models, reporting and composite services that involve integration of third-party programs and data.
13 13 While positioned as an environment that can be used by a nontechnical developer, the OrangeScape apaas has many advanced features that allow it to support multiple application development and integration styles. For example, each table defined in the OrangeScape environment automatically generates a Web services interface with five operations. Then, OrangeScape-generated Ajax UIs call the Web services generated for these tables, as well as Web services generated from rule sets or workflows generated from other components of the OrangeScape platform. OrangeScape s ability to generate REST Web services interfaces for internal components means that its application development environment can be extended by using thirdparty UI tools such as Adobe Flash or Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, or a mobile application development platform. Despite being active in the apaas market since 2009, OrangeScape has yet to generate global brand awareness, something that is essential to broad apaas sales and marketing. The vendor s focus on BPM use cases and the KiSSFLOW brand further limits its positioning in the general-purpose apaas market. Although OrangeScape has deployed resources outside of India, most of its apaas sales successes are local. Without support for high-control apaas services, OrangeScape s growth will be limited to those developers who best fit its relatively narrow target developer profile. OrangeScape has had limited success in recruiting ISVs to build their applications on the OrangeScape platform. Because a considerable part of current apaas use is derived from building extensions to SaaS offerings, this will limit the vendor s opportunities for growth. OutSystems OutSystems is a high-productivity enterprise rapid application delivery (RAD) PaaS that focuses on accelerating the time to solution of enterprise apps. OutSystems platform uses an indirectly executed metadata-driven model that is, the metadata model is used to generate.net or Java code, which ultimately drives the execution of the application. Applications are developed using native desktop tools and deployed to the onpremises, private cloud or public cloud, and are usable with Web and mobile devices. Strengths The platform makes extensive use of metadata models to configure the application layers business processes, integration workflows, UIs, business logic, data model, Web services and APIs enabling high-productivity development and faster time to solution. Developers can incorporate their own custom Java or C# code or libraries, and compose them as part of the model. Applications built using OutSystems are very portable. Applications can be exported to an Eclipse or Visual Studio project, and can be deployed and maintained outside the OutSystems apaas. Also, the platform allows developers to take a hybrid approach to application development and hosting, thus avoiding lock-in to any one platform. Through OutSystems Forge, anyone (including partners, enterprise and individual developers, and OutSystems) can provide and developers have access to a number of a prebuilt components and sample applications that offer different platform capabilities, such as Google Maps, and PayPal services integration, and prebuilt UI components, like file upload and calendars. OutSystems also provides a number of sample applications and industry frameworks that demonstrate how different components can quickly be brought together to build an application. OutSystems platform provides a number of APIs, such as those allowing detailed monitoring of application and environment performance metrics. Further, it also enables the management of user accounts and access roles. The platform also provides a number of other APIs, including: Business Process Technology (BPT) for processes and activities, Charts, TaskBox for custom activity inbox management, and REST to consume external APIs. Because OutSystems platform uses a metadata model to describe the behavior of
14 14 an application, it does not give the developer complete control over the generated code. While generated code can be detached from the platform, generated code modified outside the platform cannot be easily reintegrated back into the original solution without rework (no automated round-trip development). OutSystems Forge currently provides no way for partners to monetize their Forge components; there is little incentive for developers to contribute to Forge. Further, guaranteed technical support is only provided for a handful of the available Forge components; most components are published by third parties and support is provided by the component creator through a discussion forum. While OutSystems model-driven approach to development accelerates the time to solution, developers experienced in more traditional approaches to application development may struggle to understand how to balance the use of custom code and libraries, versus using the model. Production enterprise applications do not scale automatically with the usage of the application. While resources can be added in a relatively easy way, the decision to allocate more resources to run an application is a manual one. Progress Through a series of acquisitions and homegrown development, Progress has put together a comprehensive, multifunctional set of PaaS offerings collectively known as Progress Pacific. The family includes two apaas offerings: Rollbase and Modulus. Rollbase (acquired in June 2013) is a highproductivity, cloud-native, shared-everything apaas that natively supports subtenancy. The runtime engine for Rollbase is the Pacific Application Server (based on Tomcat), which can also support native Java applications and applications developed with Progress on-premises platform, OpenEdge. Modulus (acquired in June 2014) is a mature, high-control apaas for running Node. js, MongoDB and the Meteor.js framework. The Pacific family also includes the Telerik Platform (acquired in October 2014), which adds cloudhosted, user-experience-focused mobile and desktop development tools, as well as a set of mobile back-end services, and DataDirect Cloud, which provides data connectivity, virtualization and integration cloud services. Although Progress has not yet deeply integrated the products, they all work well together, and they interoperate with on-premises OpenEdge applications and databases. All Progress Pacific offerings support development with JavaScript. Both Rollbase and Modulus are also available as a CEAP, and can be deployed onpremises and in any public IaaS environment. Strengths Progress Pacific is a comprehensive apaas offering. A combination of high-productivity and high-control environments caters to all users. User-experience-focused tooling, mobile services and data virtualization capabilities facilitate compelling multichannel business applications. Flexible hosting options allow customers to deploy applications in public, hosted private and on-premises configurations. Progress has a well-established on-premises platform business with its high-productivity OpenEdge platform and database. The vendor is aggressively selling Pacific to this existing customer base, and provides tools that make migration to Rollbase simple and straightforward. Progress has a strong ISV program. More than 1,400 ISVs provide applications built on Progress technology, and Progress is recruiting these partners to build solutions on Rollbase (more than 40 have done so already). ISVs can white-label the Rollbase platform, and ISV partners speak well of Progress technical and marketing support. A strong ISV program generates growth opportunities because SaaS offerings create a channel for upselling the underlying platform. Progress has launched a program to win clients and ISVs from Salesforce, touting lower costs and increased flexibility. Rollbase includes a tool that can import Salesforce and Force.com applications. The three-step process imports all metadata and data, and instantly generates a comparable Rollbase application. (The tool cannot convert Apex and SOQL code, however.) Progress plans for Modulus include support for Docker, additional languages, one-click deployments and subtenancy.
16 16 Google s Kubernetes for orchestration, which will provide fine-grained control of automation and autoscaling. Red Hat promotes the OpenShift framework as a standard, although, to date, Cloud Foundry has gained wider vendor support as a PaaS framework standard. This has put Red Hat at a disadvantage in its efforts to develop a partner ecosystem, which is illustrated by modest third-party participation in the OpenShift Marketplace. In an effort to spur OpenShift adoption, Red Hat recently launched the OpenShift Commons Community to foster collaboration and engagement via an opensource community. Docker support will greatly expand the OpenShift ecosystem. The JBoss BPM and BRMS cartridges support model-driven development, although they don t provide the kind of high-productivity advantages typical of a high-productivity apaas. OpenShift can support third-party high-productivity cartridges, but the DevOps experience is designed for the professional developer. It offers few GUI interfaces, and developers typically interface with the environment using command line interfaces (CLIs). OpenShift s built-in analytics and operational dashboards are fairly limited. To augment the basic capabilities, the customer must use thirdparty monitoring cartridges. For example, New Relic and AppDynamics cartridges are available through the OpenShift Marketplace. Users note that, although OpenShift supports autoscaling, it may take a few minutes to spin up a new Gear for large applications. The next release, which includes Docker image-based deployment and Kubernetes orchestration, will improve system resource management and should alleviate this scalability concern. Salesforce Salesforce is a cloud computing pioneer offering a market-leading SaaS, first introduced in 1999, and a market-leading PaaS unveiled in The vendor s flagship apaas offering has been and remains Force.com, a cloud-native, highproductivity, shared-everything cloud platform service. Salesforce1 Platform joins Force.com Heroku (via Heroku Connect) and a collection of other platform-related capabilities. Force.com is built around a proprietary, high-scale, cloud-native relational DBMS. This is the same DBMS that underlies Salesforce applications. Heroku is a separately standing, multilingual, shared-os, cloud-based, high-control apaas offering. Heroku was acquired by Salesforce in 2010 and continues to run on AWS platform. Heroku Connect provides a bidirectional data synchronization bridge between the PostgreSQL DBMS managed by Heroku on AWS and the massive (although still remote) Salesforce SaaS and PaaS databases. Other notable components of Salesforce1 Platform include AppExchange (an app store listing native Force.com and Heroku, plus some connected external applications) and ExactTarget Fuel (another separately deployed service, dedicated to development for Salesforce Marketing Cloud). Everything Salesforce offers is available exclusively as a cloud service. There is no deployable software version of Salesforce1 Platform or any of its components. Strengths The vendor is by far the largest provider in the enterprise apaas market by revenue and customer base. A cloud pioneer, Salesforce has a long-standing strategic successful presence in the cloud application and platform markets. This gives it the name recognition and reputation that, for many prospects, translate to a safe choice in the otherwise still immature and unsettled PaaS market. Continuing innovation over the years produced an offering with a broad portfolio of capabilities to create applications that are mobile, social and highly scalable, with identity management, and some flow control, portal and big data capabilities. The platform is open for interoperability via multiple classes of APIs, including REST, SOAP, streaming and batch. Most recently, the vendor introduced Salesforce1 Lightning, a new, mobile-first composite application development platform to advance the agility, productivity and usercentricity of its application platform. With over $4 billion in acquisitions during the last five years, including Heroku, Salesforce continues to add more platform capabilities.
18 18 development of Web and mobile HTML5- based applications), and extended geographic coverage by opening data centers in the U.S. and Australia, and notably grew its customer base. Clients mention scalability, reliability, security, monitoring, seamless integration with SAP ERP on-premises, open standards support, configuration management and SAP Hana database as notable characteristics of the platform. The road map for the next 12 months increases SAP Hana Cloud Platform AppServices appeal for organizations looking for a versatile apaas by adding support for popular cloud opensource technology (OpenStack, Cloud Foundry and Docker), enabling greater openness and extensibility; API management (including some technologies resold from Apigee); support for SAP ASE and IQ DBMSs; support for the SAP Fiori UI technology; integration with SAP Solution Manager for end-to-end operation management; event stream processing and support for IoT connectivity protocols (e.g., MQTT); elastic scaling; improved security and high availability; and deployment on more data centers (including in China). Later, SAP Hana Cloud Platform will also be extended with BPM and business rule management capabilities, and with options for on-premises and thirdparty IaaS offering deployment. Clients cite limited functionality of the portal capability, a user experience development environment (SAPUI5) not suitable to support consumer-oriented application development, a lack of standardized disaster recovery options, a lack of data centers in Asia and Latin America, and some challenges in the sales process as areas for improvement. Although SAP Hana Cloud Platform AppServices made progress in adoption and functionality, it remains a well-kept secret, even for loyal SAP clients and partners, thus slowing down the pace of adoption and limiting the perception of its strategic relevance. Its technical merits and fast growth notwithstanding, the SAP Hana Cloud Platform AppServices client base is still much smaller than the leading apaas providers. Despite its established and expanding openness and standard support, SAP Hana Cloud Platform AppServices positioning and strength of being deeply integrated with SAP applications and technologies (SAP Hana, Solution Manager, SAPUI5, Fiori, etc.) risks limiting its attractiveness for non-sap-minded organizations or even for non-sap-centric projects of loyal SAP clients. Software AG Software AG s apaas offering is webmethods AgileApps Cloud (previously Software AG AgileApps Live), based on the technology and service of LongJump, a company that Software AG acquired in webmethods AgileApps Cloud is a sharedeverything, cloud-native, high-productivity and process-oriented apaas. The technology is also available as a software product for private cloud and ISV use, and is part of a broader PaaS offering also including a bpmpaas (Aris Cloud) and an ipaas (webmethods Integration Cloud), both based on the equivalent Software AG s classic on-premises technologies. Strength Software AG is a well-entrenched enterprise application infrastructure player, with an installed base of over 10,000 clients for its Aris (business process modeling), webmethods (integration middleware) and Adabas/Natural (mainframe-based DBMS and application development tools). This gives the vendor a solid enterprise provider reputation and a powerful cross-selling opportunity for its PaaS offering. In addition to a wealth of incremental technical improvements, over the past 12 months, Software AG added several businessprocess-oriented capabilities to its apaas, such as BPMN 2.0 process modeling, business rule management, case management, task management, ad hoc process/task creation, social network integration and HTML5 mobile device support, thus increasing the appeal of the platform for use cases beyond its traditional, LOB-level Web application target. Clients mention easy-to-use and intuitive development and management tooling, fast application deployment, seamless mobile device support, integration features, reliability, hybrid deployment model support, and effective and responsive technical support as notable qualities of the offering.
19 19 The webmethods AgileApps Cloud road map targets closer integration with Software AG s on-premises webmethods products (BPMS, ESB and API Portal). Terracotta BigMemory in-memory technology and Terracotta Universal Messaging message-oriented middleware will be incorporated in the platform. The road map also includes a Java/Spring application container, an application marketplace, IoT support, enterprise content management and document management capabilities, API management, support for citizen integrators (Action Framework), better integration with the webmethods Integration Cloud ipaas, and deployment in European and Australian data centers, thus improving the platform s attractiveness and making it available in a broader set of geographies than the U.S. Over the past 12 months, Software AG added only a small number of new logos to the webmethods AgileApps Cloud client list. This limited sales effectiveness, coupled with an installed based almost entirely in the U.S. and inherited from LongJump, indicates that the vendor hasn t yet devised an effective global sales strategy for an offering and delivery model with which it is not familiar. Further prolonged sales stagnation may challenge the offering s long-term viability. Software AG s conservative sales, marketing, partnership and geographic-expansion strategy, primarily focused on serving its traditional client base, is likely not sufficiently aggressive to fuel the rapid growth, widespread adoption and ample third-party support that is needed to gain momentum in the highly competitive and fast-growing apaas market. Software AG s apaas road map addresses high-control capabilities in a limited way and doesn t include autoscaling, thus limiting its appeal for users and ISVs looking for a platform to address advanced requirements. Clients mention the following as areas in need of improvement: documentation, a lack of data centers in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, and a relatively rigid pricing model. Zoho Zoho Creator is high-productivity, databasecentric business apaas. It emphasizes a low-code development experience that is usable by citizen developers. The platform uses a directly executable metadata-driven model to describe all aspects of an application. Zoho Creator offers high-control capabilities through its model-driven visual scripting environment to construct code using a proprietary language called Deluge (Data-Enriched Language for the Universal Grid Environment). It is available only as a public cloud hosted PaaS, with future plans for partial on-premises deployment support. Zoho Creator can be used to orchestrate the use of the Zoho Office Suite, which includes enterprise productivity SaaS applications, such as Zoho CRM. Strengths Zoho Creator is a very easy-to-use platform. It offers drag-and-drop configuration of the metadata model used to build an application. Applications can be built quickly, with little or no involvement from IT staff. Zoho Creator is very cloudy. The platform abstracts all management of elasticity of compute and storage resources from the developer. All tenants are hosted on shared resources, with logical tenant separation. It also meets enterprise availability and reliability needs. Citizen developers and IT leaders charged with supporting citizen developers may find Zoho Creator s pricing attractive. While not the most powerful application development platform, it is inexpensive and meets the high-productivity application development needs for citizen developers looking to build database-centric business applications. A citizen developer can build moderately complex business applications within the confines of the model. Zoho Creator is easily integrated with other products in the Zoho Office Suite, as well as a handful of other services, such as Salesforce and QuickBooks. Additional integrations can be created using Deluge. While Deluge allows developers high-control capabilities and enables the construction of custom logic, it only allows composition using existing functions provided by the platform; no third-party libraries are supported.
20 20 The Zoho Creator platform offers little portability. It does not use standard metadata models and is only available on publicly hosted cloud infrastructure. While Zoho Creator offers administrative and deployment features, it does not support full application life cycle management. The vendor has only recently (in February 2015) added more testing and versioning capabilities. Zoho Creator also provides no API access to administrative capabilities. The Zoho suite of tools has long been focused on serving the needs of the SMB market segment. Zoho Creator is meant to address the need for simplistic data-centric applications. It struggles to provide enough flexibility to support applications that require complex logic, third-party libraries and integrations required by many enterprise applications. Zoho Creator does not offer subtenant selfservice management, limiting the ability of ISV partners to provide SaaS applications to their customers. Support is only available 24/5, with no weekend telephone support. Vendors Added and Dropped We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants and MarketScopes as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant or MarketScope may change over time. A vendor s appearance in a Magic Quadrant or MarketScope one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor. Added OrangeScape, OutSystems and Zoho were added. These three vendors of high-productivity apaas were deemed to offer sufficient cloud and enterprise capabilities, and were estimated to exceed the admission thresholds on revenue and number of paying customers. Bimodal enterprise IT calls for complementary requirements for both high-productivity and high-control apaas capabilities, which allows more high-productivity apaas providers to compete in the enterprise apaas market. Dropped AppPoint Software Solutions This vendor did not meet the more demanding inclusion criteria, including the revenue and number of paying customer thresholds. CloudBees This vendor exited the apaas market; it discontinued its service to focus all business resources on cloud application development life cycle management (ADLM) PaaS. Docker This vendor exited the apaas market: it sold its apaas business to cloudcontrol and is focusing entirely on its Docker container technology. CenturyLink-Tier 3 After the acquisition of Tier 3, the vendor retired its WebFabric apaas offering, and is focusing on its Tier 3 IaaS offering; CenturyLink AppFog did not meet the revenue and number of paying customer thresholds. WSO2 This vendor retreated from the apaas market to redesign its offering and to reenter with a more functionally complete and competitive apaas offering. The new App Cloud did not meet the revenue and number of paying customer. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria To be included in this research, a vendor must deliver a service with the following characteristics (all evaluated as of 1 September 2014): It has to be a cloud service: Available by subscription and accessible over Internet technologies Available uniformly to all qualified subscribers Includes some sharing of physical resources between logically isolated tenants Includes some self-service provisioning and management by subscribers Includes bidirectional scaling without interruption of activities and with some automation Includes some instrumentation for tracking of operations
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Creating Excitement, New Relationships & Team Spirit
"The greatest gift you can give anyone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern." -Joel Osteen
Educational Endeavors offers a Connections program designed to help groups of people get "connected" to each other in fun and interactive ways. Connections events involve participants in small teams that work together in order to complete and solve as many challenges, puzzles and games as possible before the program ends.
Appropriate for all abilities and designed to engage large groups of people, our Connections programs are set up on school campuses, in city parks and at camp and resort settings. Participation in these events requires groups to communicate, share ideas, try new things and work together. Depending on the amount of time, space available and the size of the group, between 20 and 50 individual team-building activities can be utilized.
"Freshmen Connections" is a great way for freshmen students to be introduced to their new high school environment. In a short period of time, this interactive event helps students to get to know each other as they move about and become more familiar with the school campus. Because this event requires many different activities and challenges to occur simultaneously, there are many opportunities for upper-class students, teachers, staff and administrators to act as "facilitators" and "team leaders."
After completing a Freshmen Connections program, many participants report that they are "more excited and confident" about entering high school and that they feel "more comfortable and willing" to interact with other students.
As the principal of a large inner city high school, I am always working to develop student and staff leadership and team building skill… Educational Endeavors has GREATLY helped improve our school environment. Our students and staff find Educational Endeavors an A+ activity that brings lasting positive changes. In my twenty years in education I have yet to find a program that equals the lasting benefits of Educational Endeavors' outstanding program.— Chris Jones, Principal High School

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Millennium Entertainment has debuted the trailer for Are You Here, the feature debut from writer/director Matthew Weiner, best known for creating AMC's "Mad Men." Check it out in the player below!
Starring Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler and Owen Wilson, Are You Here begins when the off-the-grid Ben Baker (Galifianakis) inherits his estranged father's fortune. His best friend, womanizing local weatherman Steve Dallas (Wilson), then joins forces with him to battle the legal challenge brought by Ben's formidable sister (Poehler).
The comedy hits theaters in a limited release August 22.


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I am an award winning photographer based in Syracuse and Upstate NY. I am available for head shots and model portfolios to submit to Miss New York USA, Miss New York Teen USA, Miss New York Outstanding Teen Pageant, Angel Face Royal Princess Pageant as well as any other talent competitions or modeling portfolios. Here […]Learn More


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…or Sződliget: The Power of Misleading Social Media Flavor Text?
Recently, an article and gorgeous photos crossed my Facebook feed: A Mysterious and Abandoned Fishing Village Outside of Budapest Captured in Perfect Reflection. The photos were stunning and moody, and outside of Budapest? I could go there! Thus began my quest to figure out where this location actually was, hampered at every stage by the incredibly misleading flavor text in the article, which I saw develop even more misleading variations elsewhere.
A few years ago photographer Viktor Egyed accidentally stumbled upon the town Sződliget a few miles outside of Budapest, and to his delight found this small abandoned fishing village filled with clusters of A-frame huts. Deciding the weather was not ideal, Egyed came back a few years later when he was able to capture the town in a hazy fog, the perfect condition to highlight the glasslike reflections of the structures in the lake below.
On Instagram, someone even implied that the photos pictured Sződliget itself, during one of the Danube's "frequent" floods (Sződliget was affected by the record flooding in 2013, but the majority of the town is not in routine danger of flooding).
I don't mean to pick on the photographer, Viktor Egyed, who is obviously skilled and creative; I don't even know how much of the article was journalistic embellishment of what he actually said. But as I searched for this "abandoned fishing village," I soon found that it was
- Not abandoned.
- Not a village.
- Not somewhere you could just accidentally stumble over.
Elsewhere I've also seen Sződliget described as a dying town, and that's not true, either – in the 1980s it was aging, with fewer farming families (it is not a fishing town – most if not all of the fishing in Sződliget is for sport), but it is now increasingly a bedroom communities for people who work in Budapest and Vác. In my two visits I saw plenty of families out walking, as well as what looked like a local school running team practicing. Sződliget is not a ghost town—it's just an average small Hungarian town with little to interest foreign tourists. I suspect in summer there is a little domestic tourism for fishing and boating, and it does support a yacht club. Here are some quick cellphone shots I took of the residential streets as I walked the 30–40 minutes from the train station to the nature reserve:
First of all, I really doubt Egyed "stumbled upon" this fishing lake. It's in an un-signed nature preserve, and there are two ways to reach it, neither of which is obvious. On my first trip to Sződliget, I naturally went to the fishing lakes that were large enough to show on GoogleMaps—which belonged to a fishing club, were entirely fenced in, and were obviously not the same as those in the photos. I ended up going home and asking a local photographer for help, and he very kindly confirmed my suspicions of where the lake really was and explained how to get there, so my second visit was much more successful.
Once I arrived, I immediately saw that it was neither abandoned nor a village. No one has ever lived in these huts or made a living fishing in this lake. The fishing lake was established as a sport fishing lake in 1949—it says so over the gate, along with the sign indicating some connection to a national park. And it's still in use—the huts and bridges are extremely well-maintained, and there are many signs up explaining the rules of the fishing club. That no one is fishing in the middle of winter is not a surprise, but it's not abandoned in the general sense. On a chilly but sunny Saturday afternoon in February, I saw one man apparently working on maintenance (if you look closely, you can find him in the next photo) and about a dozen people walking around with family and friends.
Egyed's photos are beautiful—some of the best I've seen of this location—and speak for themselves. He chose moody, atmospheric weather, they're well-composed, and he didn't over-process them. I saw the photos and instantly wanted to go there, which I think is a mark of success.
And the Sződligeti fishing lake isn't the only location which looks much more mysterious and romantic in photos than it is in real life (the fishing shacks at Bokodi-tó in Hungary are another example)—there's nothing wrong with that. Photographers pick and choose what to show all the time. But I think it's important to be honest about what you're showing people. Those awesome-looking huts at the ends of docks in all the moody, dramatic long exposures of Bokodi-tó are also not people's homes and never have been—they're fishing shelters. The actual town of Bokod, like the town of Sződliget, looks pretty normal.
Flavor text is nice, but I wish photographers and media writers kept it short and factual (unless there really is a story to tell) and let the photos speak for themselves, rather than contributing to the creation of romanticized mythic places that exist only in imagination and pixels.
I think this is also a fine illustration of the importance of weather for the landscape photographer—in this case, how fog and mist can turn a lovely but ordinary location into something mystical and magical. I hope I'll get a chance to go back in more interesting weather, but until then, these photos will have to do.


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For those of you who aren't aware of the net neutrality debate going on, i'll give you a brief, yet biased, recap.
To have net neutrality is to allow every single website on the Internet the same equal privileges. Nobody's website gets special treatment because he/she/it has more money than others. More specifically, nobody's website loads faster than others just because he/she/it has more money.
I know, we live in a capitalist society and the people with less money should fall through the cracks and be pushed off the world wide web (sarcasm). I know this, but for some reason, i just don't feel comfortable being the person with the stick pushing them through (nor do i feel comfortable being pushed through the cracks by someone with a stick). On a side note, i understand that this is already happening......kind of. When you google someone, the person with the most hits is first, but there is always a list on the right hand side of "sponsored links", or links that people pay money to have show up. I'm okay with this because of the two lists. As long as people have a chance to be a number one hit, regardless of money, i feel good about the current system.
The problem with steering away from net neutrality is that the Internet, even with regulations, is the communications medium of choice in regards to free speech. You can literally say anything you want. I think that's a really important aspect of the Internet, regardless of all the messed up, craziness that is posted. It's that kind of freedom that is truly inspiring. Yes. people can libel you. People can post inappropriate pictures, but that same freedom allows you to post religious stories, political arguments and anything else that you enjoy.
Net neutrality isn't about the government controlling our lives. For instance, the government has their hands in what we view, but it's still run by the people. You don't believe me? What would happen if a show aired that had a gratuitous sex scene, and nobody complained? Do you think the FCC would take it off the air? Do you think they'd fine the the network that aired it? No, they wouldn't do a thing. They'd most definitely expect people to complain, but if nobody did, no actions would be taken and more scenes of the like would begin to air. I just don't understand how keeping things equal on the Internet would lead to the government taking over. I mean, i would if i was a fear monger, but i'm not, so i don't. Let's be honest. If the government really wanted to control everything, they'd be able to, regardless of whether or not the internet stayed neutral.
Next topic - Fear Mongers: why they are usually a detriment to society.