Clearer definition of PaaS

Replace a potentially misleading example and add a bit of detail to the
definition.

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Zane Bitter 2017-05-22 10:36:42 -04:00 committed by Alexandra Settle
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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Provides to the consumer the ability to deploy applications Provides to the consumer an operating system and, often, a
through a programming language or tools supported by the cloud language runtime and libraries (collectively, the "platform")
platform provider. An example of Platform-as-a-Service is an upon which they can run their own application code, without
Eclipse/Java programming platform provided with no downloads providing any control over the underlying infrastructure.
required. Examples of Platform-as-a-Service providers include Cloud Foundry
and OpenShift.
plug-in plug-in