Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events

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Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +8

Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith et al. · UC Berkeley · 2009 · 5.7K citations

Computing, Cloud Computing, Computer Science +14

<b>Research Commentary</b>—Platform Evolution: Coevolution of Platform Architecture, Governance, and Environmental Dynamics

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Two-sided Markets, Competitive Bottlenecks and Exclusive Contracts

Mark Armstrong, Julian Wright · Economic Theory · 2006 · 671 citations

Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +16