The session explained how and why Ruby on Rails (RoR) Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings such as Engine Yard are becoming formidable competition to perhaps more well-known PaaS options such as Force.com, Google App Engine, and Microsoft Azure.

The opening keynote for CloudExpo 2010 NYC was delivered by Richard Sarwal and Hasan Rizvi, SVPs of Product Development for Oracle Corporation. The title of the presentation was “The Coming of Age of Enerprise IT and Cloud Computing.”