The last year has been a whirlwind in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) space. Traditional middleware vendors finally released long-awaited offerings. Some early PaaS players, like Google(S goog) and Microsoft(s msft), have since exposed Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings directly. And traditional hosting providers like CenturyLink(s ctl), have realized that PaaS helps them connect with developers.

There is clearly still a lot of PaaS learning going on, and it’s very difficult for those not embedded in all-things-cloud to figure it all out. With that in mind, here are some major myths we’ve encountered in the PaaS market.

Myth #1: All PaaS platforms are the same

Choosing a PaaS today is simply not a feature checkbox comparison process. The offerings were created from widely differing visions, and thus may be biased toward a particular problem space. For example:

• A PaaS may be based on a specific language; Heroku started out as…