The document discusses different approaches to Platform as a Service (PaaS) and proposes building a PaaS on OpenStack to provide more control without complexity. It describes existing PaaS offerings like Google App Engine, Heroku, and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk that emphasize simplicity over control. The proposed OpenStack-based PaaS would use GigaSpaces technology to offer deployment, management, high availability, scalability, multi-tenancy, and monitoring capabilities while allowing flexibility to choose operating systems, middleware stacks, and other configuration options. It demonstrates deploying and managing a Cassandra service and discusses the current status of integrating GigaSpaces with OpenStack.