Blog Archives

CloudFoundry Launches Micro Cloud–’Cos it’s All About Local

August 24, 2011

Business

cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, MongoDB, MySQL, OpenStack, RabbitMQ, Ruby on Rails, VMware

VMware is this morning announcing the general release of Micro CloudFoundry, a downloadable and installable PaaS that can be run on any PC or Mac. Micro CloudFoundry is essentially a local emulation of the cloud based CloudFoundry product –…

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.NET has Enterprise Cred–AppHarbor Banks on That With a PaaS

June 27, 2011

Business

.NET Framework, appharbor, cloudcomputing, Heroku, Microsoft, PaaS, Ruby on Rails

In the race to build credibility with the development community, Ruby on Rails wins the battle to be cool hands down – look for a new web 2.0 application, or hunt down a quintessential garage-dwelling developer and it’s a…

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Engine Yard Goes Free(ish) and Talks Post Heroku Deal

April 7, 2011

Business

.NET Framework, EngineYard, Heroku, Java, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com

Engine Yard is a Ruby PaaS offering that, ever since the Decemebr acquisition by salesforce.com of another PaaS Heroku, has been held up as the last-man-standing (at least when it comes to independent Ruby based PaaS providers). They recently…

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Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective

December 9, 2010

Business

Force.Com, Heroku, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com

I posted yesterday about the purchase by Salesforce of Ruby on Rails application platform Heroku. This is a quick post to look at how this can make a big difference to the ecosystem of developers out there who make…

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Blog Archives

CloudFoundry Launches Micro Cloud–’Cos it’s All About Local

.NET has Enterprise Cred–AppHarbor Banks on That With a PaaS

Engine Yard Goes Free(ish) and Talks Post Heroku Deal

Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective