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Oracle and Engine Yard Up a Tree, P-A-A-S-I-N-G

September 27, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, Cloud Foundry, EngineYard, Heroku, Java, oracle, Platform as a service, Windows Azure

When Engine Yard announced awhile back a strategic investment from Oracle – it kind of felt like a Hail Mary pass. Engine Yard, which a solid and reliable platform, has lost much of its shine as its competitors get…

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Engine Yard on Windows Azure? Yup, You Read that Right

June 28, 2013

Business

azure, Engine Yard, Heroku, Microsoft, netsuite, Open source, Platform as a service, Windows Azure

Lost in the outpouring of interest about last week’s announcements between Oracle and sometime enemies Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce was an interesting piece of news – that Engine Yard was going to begin supporting Windows Azure. This is kind…

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Heroku Rolls out Support for JavaScript within PostGres

June 5, 2013

Business

google, Heroku, JavaScript, JSON, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Relational database, SQL

There’s always battles waging in the technology community – Linux vs Windows, OpenStack vs AWS, DevOps vs NoOps vs SomeOtherKindOfOps. Another oft visited argument is the relation versus non-relational databases. Essentially the protagonists for the NoSQL movement suggest that…

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Apprenda Shifts the Game on Polyglot Vs Best of Breed PaaS

February 27, 2013

Business

.NET Framework, Apprenda, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, Heroku, Java, JPMorgan Chase, platform services

One of the biggest battles raging in the PaaS world has been between the Polyglot and the Best of Breed camps. In the polyglot corner stands Heroku, Engine Yard and Cloud Foundry who all say that only a platform…

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Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

February 26, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, Heroku, oracle, platform services, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent…

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Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

February 15, 2013

Business

Aaron Levie, Benevolent Dictator For Life, dropbox, google, Guido van Rossum, Heroku, Python, Ruby, Sam Schillace

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way…

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Garantia Goes GA

February 13, 2013

Business

AWS, cloud computing, Heroku, NoSQL, Persistent data structure, Redis, Redis Cloud, US West

I’ve written before about Garantia, the Israeli startup that is aiming to overcome some of the disadvantages that NoSQL databases come with – namely lack of persistence and scalability. Garantia’s solution is to offer Memcached with higher reliability and…

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Appsecute Launches a DevOps Focused Social Stream

February 7, 2013

Business

appsecute, Cloud Foundry, DevOps, GitHub, Heroku, Israel, Platform as a service, zendesk

Exciting times at Appsecute at the moment as the team begins to unveil its new vision for the company. When the company first started (and, for anyone not aware of the fact, I’m an investor and board member) our…

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Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

January 4, 2013

Business

cloudcomputing, EngineYard, Force.Com, Heroku, platform services, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service, Visual Basic

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and…

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Salesforce Acquires Prior Knowledge

December 13, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Force.Com, Heroku, Operation Veritable, Prior Knowledge, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Thanksgiving

A couple of weeks ago salesforce announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company Prior Knowledge. The announcement came on the day before Thanksgiving and hence was little reported – interestingly the Prior Knowledge team moves quickly to shut…

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