# ANNOUNCEMENT: ModBox - Open Platform as a Service

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcement-modbox-open-platform-as-a-service/158343>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 22, 2009, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcement-modbox-open-platform-as-a-service/158343 "2009-01-22T10:26:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcement-modbox-open-platform-as-a-service/158343/1 "2009-01-22T10:26:59Z")

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ModBox an “Open Platform as a Service” (OPaaS). Ok, what the #@#$ is  
OPaaS? OPaaS is PaaS, but open. Think [Custom Application Development Software for Business - Salesforce.com](http://Force.com/Google) App Engine/  
Amazon EC2 - but open. Really open. Not fake open like so much other  
BS services that try to lock you in. In a nutshell,  
ModBox is a Web-based distributed development environment that is  
completely  
neutral in every way. So, you can use any infrastructure you want,  
any  
programming language, (e.g., Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, etc.) any  
server, any OS, any database, etc. to create/distribute applications.  
Also, because ModBox works over standard  
HTTP, you can incorporate existing applications or web services into  
the  
applications you create. ModBox brings all the pieces together  
seemlessly  
for programmers and users. I hope I have borrowed the best ideas from  
IDE’s,  
RAD, frameworks, Web services grid/cloud computing and Open Source to  
make a  
logical ecosystem which puts a much needed front-end/face on all of  
it. Being a programmer, I know getting programmers interested in a new  
service is key, or as an old friend of mine used to say, ignore the  
programmers and die! With that said, I welcome you to Rock the Box and  
let me know if it makes as much sense to you as it does to me. I  
would, of course greatly appreciate any feedback as I am not so bold  
to think I have cracked the code on the 1.0. The URL is below.

ModBox - Open Platform as a Service:  
[http://www.sullivansoftwaresystems.com/modbox](http://www.sullivansoftwaresystems.com/modbox)

Thanks for your time.

Brian Sullivan  
Sullivan Software Systems  
ModBox - Rock the Box.