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Survey: What Would You Like to See in a Platform-as-a-Service Comparison?

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Survey: What Would You Like to See in a Platform-as-a-Service Comparison?

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DZone's Cloud Zone has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last couple of months, so we want to gauge the community's interest in the various and sundry aspects of the sometimes cloudy topic of cloud computing. More specificially, DZone is interested in your thoughts on what would be interesting to see in a PaaS-comparison guide. The survey linked bolow is only four questions long (only one of which requires actual writing!), and the results should give us a better idea of what the DZone community would like to read more about in the Cloud Zone. We're pumped to read what you think.

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